Coronel, Gregor Nunez

Coronel, Gregor Nunez a Portuguese priest who lived in the 16th century, was preacher to the duke of Savoy. Clement VIII, whose confessor he was, appointed him first secretary and consulter of the Congregatiao de Auxiliis. His treatise against IMolina is preserved in MS. in the Angelica. He died at Rome in 1620, leaving, De Vera Christi Ecclesia (Rome, 1594): — De Optimo Republicae Statu (ibid. 1597): — Apologeticum de Traditionibus Apostolicis (ibid. eod.). See Ossinger, Bibl. Aug. page 636; Lanteri, Saec. Sex, 2:280; Schmalfus, Hist. Relig. et Eccles. Christ. 5:244 (giving the substance of Coronel's treatise against Molina); Keller, in Wetzer u. Welte's Kirchen-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)