Andres de Soto or Andreas a Soto (1552/3–1625) was a Franciscan preacher and spiritual writer, confessor to the Infanta

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Life

Andres de Soto was born in

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, Spain, in 1552 or 1553. He entered the Recollect Franciscan Order at the age of 20. In 1599 he was appointed as confessor to the Infanta Isabella and travelled to the

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. He remained the Infanta's confessor until his death, 26 years later. In 1603 he was awarded 3,000 ''livres'' out of state funds, to be employed in pious works, and a further 713 ''livres'' to buy a new hermitage and renovate an existing hermitage in Ghent. In 1604 he helped re-establish the Franciscan Recollect convent in Boetendael, which had been badly damaged and abandoned in 1579. In 1616 he helped found the Annunciate convent in Brussels. In 1622, a year after her husband the Archduke Albert had died, Soto received Isabella's profession as a

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.Van Wyhe, p. 423 He died in Brussels on 5 April 1625.

Works

*''Libro de la vida y excellencias de el glorioso S. Ioseph, esposo de la Virgen N. Señora'' (Brussels, Jan Mommaert, 1600)
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**Dutch translation by Franciscus Vanden Broecke as ''Het leven van den heyligen Joseph, bruydegom onser Liever Vrouwen'' (Brussels, Jan Mommaert, 1614). *''Contemplacion Del Crucifixo, Y Consideraciones De Christo Crucificado, y de los dolores que la Virgen sanctissima padescio al pie de la cruz'' (Antwerp,

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, 1601).
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(Reissued in Brussels by

Jean Pepermans Jean Pepermans, sometimes Latinized Joannes Pepermannus (active 1620–1635) was a 17th-century printer and bookseller, official printer to the city of Brussels. Very little is known about his life, but he published works by or about some of the l ...

, 1623
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) **Dutch translation by Jan van Blitterswyck as ''Beschouwinghen op het kruycifix ende op de smerten welcke de heylighste Maghet Maria lede aen den voedt des Kruys'' (Brussels, Jean Pepermans, 1625). *''Redempcion del tiempo cavtivo: en que se declava, quan preciosa cosa es il tiempo, y lo mucho que pierde el que le tiene cautivo, y como se ha de reaimir'' (Antwerp, Widow and Heirs of Petrus Bellerus, 1606)
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*''Opusculos del origen antiguedad bendicion significacion, virtud, y milagros del agnus dei y del agua bendita'' (Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1607)
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*''Sermon que predico el P. F. Andres de Soto en el convento de las Carmelitas descalças de la villa de Brusellas, a la profession de la hermana Theresa de Jesus'' (Brussels, Jan Mommaert, 1610). *''Vida, milagros y mission a España del glorioso martyr Eugenio, primer arçobispo de la sancta iglesia de Toledo'' (Brussels, Rutger Velpius & Hubert Antoon, 1612). *''Dos Dialogos en los quales se ensena que cosa sea milagro y porque hizo milagros Christo Nuestro Senor y de que sirven'' (Brussels, Rutger Velpius & Hubert Antoon, 1612). **French translation by

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as ''Deux dialogues traitans de la doctrine & matiere des miracles'' (Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1613)
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**Dutch translation by Philip Numan as ''Twee t'samensprekingen behandelende de leeringe ende materie vanden mirakelen'' (Brussels, Rutger Velpius, 1614)
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*''De schole van de eenicheydt des menschs met Godt'' (Antwerp,

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, 1616)
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