Baltasar Basseliers (Balthasar Basseliers, ca. 1570-1637)

Baltasar Basseliers (Balthasar Basseliers, ca. 1570-1637) OFM. Belgian friar from Antwerp. Member of the Germania Inferioris province. Guardian of the 's-Hertogenbosch friary (1611-1612), the Roermond friary (ca. 1622) and the Antwerp friary (1623-24). During his time in 's-Hertogenbosch, he shortly joined the Capuchins, but was back as a Franciscan friar within a year. By 1631 he was active in Maastricht. Two-times provincial definitor. He was a well-respected preacher and published shortly before his death at the request of his superiors a number of his sermons.

Works

• Conciones Morales, omni tempore praedicabiles (...) super Evangelium Joannis de Lazaro quatriduano redivivo. Auctore V.P.F. Balthasare Basseliers Ordinis Minorum Reg. Observantiae Provinciae Germaniae Inferioris Definitore (Antwerp: Willem Lesteens, 1638). Accessible via the Dutch National Library in The Hague (Koninklijke Bibliotheek), and via Google Books

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