McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Anfosius, Dominic

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Anfosius, Dominic


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(Ital. Domenico Anfossi), was a native of Taggia, in the state of Genoa, who lived in the beginning of the 17th century. He embraced the ecclesiastic state, taught in the University of Pavia, and in his old-age, when blind, retired among the Fathers of the Oratory of that place. He wrote, De Sacrarum Reliquiarum Cultu, Veneratione, Translatione atque Identitate (Brescia, 1610): — published an edition of the Acts of the Council of Albenga, held by Vincent Landinelli, the bishop of that see: — and some other works.