a Portuguese scholastic, was born at Castel Branco in 1539, and died in 1626, professor of theology at Coimbra and provincial of the Portuguese Augustinian-Eremites. Besides the writings in praise of his order (Primas Augustinianaeus [Cologne, 1627] and Apologia seu Defensorium Ordinis S. Aug.), he wrote, Disputationes ad Priores V Quaestiones 1, 2 S. Thomae (Coimbra, 1609, 1615, 3 volumes): — De Voluntario et Involuntario (2 volumes): — Philosophia Naturalis et Supernaturalis: — De Immac. Concept. B. VM. V. (ibid. 1617, book 4). See Ossinger, Bibl. August. 356; Streber, in Wetzer u. Welte's Kirchenlexikon, s.v. (B.P.)