Baltasar de Quiñones (died 1798) was the Master of the Order of Preachers from 1777 to 1798.
Baltasar de Quiñones was a native of Noblejas in the Province of Toledo, located in the ecclesiastical province of Spain. [1] He first came to prominence as a preacher at the court of Charles III of Spain. [1]
In 1777, the General Chapter of the Dominican Order elected him as their master. [2] He was master at the time of the French Revolution, with its concomitant anti-clericalism and the Dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution. [2] All religious houses in France, Belgium, Germany, and many in Italy were suppressed from roughly 1789 to 1850. [2] Quiñones remained strangely indifferent to the disasters befalling his order. [2] As such, he was deposed by Pope Pius VI in 1798 and exiled to La Quercia. [2]
He later returned to Spain, [2] and then moved on to Florence, where he died on 20 June 1798. [1]
Baltasar de Quiñones (died 1798) was the Master of the Order of Preachers from 1777 to 1798.
Baltasar de Quiñones was a native of Noblejas in the Province of Toledo, located in the ecclesiastical province of Spain. [1] He first came to prominence as a preacher at the court of Charles III of Spain. [1]
In 1777, the General Chapter of the Dominican Order elected him as their master. [2] He was master at the time of the French Revolution, with its concomitant anti-clericalism and the Dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution. [2] All religious houses in France, Belgium, Germany, and many in Italy were suppressed from roughly 1789 to 1850. [2] Quiñones remained strangely indifferent to the disasters befalling his order. [2] As such, he was deposed by Pope Pius VI in 1798 and exiled to La Quercia. [2]
He later returned to Spain, [2] and then moved on to Florence, where he died on 20 June 1798. [1]