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Francisco Macedo (born atCoimbra, Portugal, 1596; diedPadua, 1 May 1681), known as S. Augustino, was a PortugueseFranciscan theologian.
He entered theJesuit Order in 1610, which however he left in 1638 in order to join theDiscalced Augustinians. These also he left in 1648, for theFranciscans. In Portugal he sided with theHouse of Braganza.
Summoned to Rome byPope Alexander VII, he taught theology at theCollege of the Propaganda, and afterwards church history at the Sapienza, and as consultor to theInquisition. AtVenice in 1667, during the week beginning 26 September, he held a public disputation, against all comers, on nearly every branch of human knowledge, especially the Bible, theology, patrology, history, law, literature, and poetry. He named this disputation, in his quaint and extravagant style, "Leonis Marci rugitus litterarii" (the literary roaring of the Lion of St. Mark); this obtained for him the freedom of the city of Venice and the professorship of moral philosophy at theUniversity of Padua.
Rather restless, but a man of enormous erudition, he wrote a number of books, of which over 100 appeared in print, and about thirty are still unprinted. They included:
Controversiae selectae contra haereticos" (Rome, 1663)
He also took an active part in the Jansenist controversy, being at first inclined toJansenism; but afterwards he defendedAugustine of Hippo's teaching with regard tograce.
