Matthias Faber was a German

Germany

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 religious writer and preacher.

Faber was born in Altomünster

Altomünster

Altomünster is a municipality in the district of Dachau in Bavaria in Germany.-Education:The Grund- und Mittelschule Altomünster has about 500 pupils. Since October 2011 the Volksschule Altomünster has a Comenius-partnership. Declared school-partners are the „Primary School“ in Crook and the...

. He became curé of the parish of St. Maurice at Ingolstadt

Ingolstadt

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, and was a professor at the University of that city. His sermons had already won for him a reputation as a sacred orator when he entered the Society of Jesus at Vienna

Vienna

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. He was then fifty years old. He died in Tyrnau

Tyrnau

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, Slovakia

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.

The sermons which he has left are remarkable for the clairty of their Catholic

Catholic

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 doctrine, and learning. He is even more a controversialist than orator in the ordinary sense of the word. His object in preaching was, before everything, either to convert non Catholics, or to safeguard Catholics from the Reformation

Protestant Reformation

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. According to the custom of the times he made excessive use of Scriptural text, which crowd his instructive sermons and render the reading of them difficult. They are all written in Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

, and have been published in many editions.