Adrianus Hofstadius (Ariaan Verhofstad/Hochstaden/Van der Hofstad, ca. 1540-1595)

Adrianus Hofstadius (Ariaan Verhofstad/Hochstaden/Van der Hofstad, ca. 1540-1595) OFM. Belgian/Dutch friar. Probably born in Louvain around 1540. he is found as a young mendicant preacher in Utrecht in 1564, to replace the renowned Franciscan preacher Bartholomaeus of Middelburg, who had died. Adrianus was also active as a preacher in Amsterdam before 1570. From that year onwards, he taught at the Franciscan Studium Theologicum of Louvain, where he taught fellow friars and lay people. From 1572 onwards, he also fulfiled the position of guardian, in which capacity he had to take care of the Franciscan friary during the siege of Louvain by Guillaume of Orange. In 1581, he is probably guardian in St. Truiden, for in that year the friar minor Adrianus Hochstaden is asked by the Liège Prins-bishop Ernest of Bavaria to preach in his episcopal town. Shortly thereafter, between 1582 and 1585, Adrianus was in exile in Cologne, where he lived in the delapidated Olive monastery and preached in the local female Augustinian monastery. These sermons on the Sacraments and the Eucharist were held in particular for fellow Dutch exiled Catholics, but also drew the interest of local lay people. In 1585, Adrianus returned to the Low Countries. From 1586 he is found at times as a preacher in Antwerp and he is again guardian in Louvain in 1592. After a short stay in Brussels, he moved to Maastricht, with the aim to organize his written works. But he died there quite suddenly on November 22, 1595, and was buried in the church of the Friars Minor. After his death, his Cologne Sermones Euchatistici were edited and pubished by Henricus Sedulius, with financial support of Adrianus's old friend from Louvain Hendrik van Elten.

Works

• The other works of Adrianus, including his Decalogi et catechismi explicatio , In symbolum apostolicum explicatio, libri XII , and his In epistolam sancti Pauli ad Romanos, liber unus , once present in manuscript format in the Dominican friary of Antwerp, were apparently never printed and are probably lost.

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• R.P.F. Adriani Hofstadii ex Ordine Minorum Sermones Eucharistici LXIIX , ed. Henricus Sedulius R.P.F. Adriani Hofstadii ex Ordine Minorum Sermones Eucharistici LXIIX , ed. Henricus Sedulius (Antwerp: Joachim Trognaesius/Cologne: Joannes Crithius, 1613). Possible additional editions. Cf. De Troeyer I, 378. The 1608 edition is available as an electronic document via the University Library of Ghent and via Google Books.

  1613 Antwerp

  Possible additional editions. Cf. De Troeyer I, 378. The 1608 edition is available as an electronic document via the University Library of Ghent and via Google Books.

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