Andres de Soto

Andres de Soto
OFM

Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of a Franciscan, between 1615 and 1617
Born 1552/3
Sahagún, Crown of Castile, Habsburg Spain
Died 5 April 1625
Brussels, Duchy of Brabant, Spanish Netherlands
Nationality Spanish
Other names Andreas a Soto
Religion Catholic
Offices held
Confessor to the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia

Andres de Soto or Andreas a Soto (1552/3–1625) was a Franciscan preacher and spiritual writer, confessor to the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia.[1]

Life

Andres de Soto was born in Sahagún, Spain, in 1552 or 1553.[2]

He entered the Recollect Franciscan Order at the age of 20. In 1599 he was appointed as confessor to the Infanta Isabella and travelled to the Spanish Netherlands. He remained the Infanta's confessor until his death, 26 years later.

In 1604 he helped re-establish the Franciscan Recollect convent in Boetendael, which had been badly damaged and abandoned in 1579. In 1616 he helped found the Annunciate convent in Brussels. In 1622, a year after Isabella's husband, the Archduke Albert, had died, Soto received her profession as a Franciscan Tertiary.[3]

He died in Brussels on 5 April 1625.

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References

  1. Cordula van Wyhe, "Court and Convent: The Infanta Isabella and Her Franciscan Confessor Andrés de Soto", Sixteenth Century Journal 35/2 (Summer, 2004), pp. 411-445. DOI: 10.2307/20476943 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20476943
  2. "Soto". www.dutchrevolt.leiden.edu. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  3. Van Wyhe, p. 423
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