Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
Catholic cardinal (1436-1517) · Spain · Religious Figures · Died at 81
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Something wrong?Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, OFM was a Spanish cardinal, religious figure, and statesman. Starting from humble beginnings he rose to the heights of power, becoming a religious reformer, twice regent of Spain, Cardinal, Grand Inquisitor, promoter of the Crusades in North Africa, and founder of the Alcalá University.
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Cardinal Cisneros depicted to the right of Jesus crucified on the cross, by Pedro de Castañeda, 1553
The Moorish Proselytes of Archbishop Ximenes, Granada, 1500 by Edwin Long (1829-1891)
Cisneros (sitting) visits the construction of the Hospital of the Charity. Sanctuary of the Charity of Illescas (Toledo) by Alejandro Ferrant (1844-1917)
University of Alcalá de Henares or Complutense University.
"Archetypo de virtudes" (Pedro de Quintanilla y Mendoza, 1653).About this person
Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, OFM was a Spanish cardinal, religious figure, and statesman. Starting from humble beginnings he rose to the heights of power, becoming a religious reformer, twice regent of Spain, Cardinal, Grand Inquisitor, promoter of the Crusades in North Africa, and founder of the Alcalá University. Among his intellectual accomplishments during the Renaissance in Spain, he is best known for funding the Complutensian Polyglot Bible, the first polyglot version of the entire Bible, which was mass produced using Johannes Gutenberg's printing press. He also edited and published the first printed editions of the missal and the breviary of the Mozarabic Rite, and established a chapel with a college of thirteen priests to celebrate the Mozarabic Liturgy of the Hours and Eucharist each day in the Toledo Cathedral.
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