Luis de la Puente

Venerable
Luis de la Puente SJ
Portrait of Luis de la Puente
Born(1574-11-11)11 November 1574
Valladolid, Spain
Died16 February 1624(1624-02-16) (aged 49)
Valladolid
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Feast16 February (Jesuits)

Luis de la Puente SJ (also D'Aponte, de Ponte, Dupont) (11 November 1554 – 16 February 1624) was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and ascetic writer. He was one of the most esteemed ascetical writer of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A few years after his death, the Sacred Congregation of Rites admitted the cause of his beatification and canonization.

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