Auvergne, Pierre D

Auvergne, Pierre d'

or PETRUS DE CROS, a French theologian and philosopher, died Sept. 25, 1307 (according to others, 1301). He became, under the guidance of Thomas Aquinas, a distinguished theologian and philosopher. He was doctor of the Sorbonne and canon of the chapter of Paris. According to Samarthanus (in Gallia Christiana), he was subsequently bishop of Clermont. He wrote a number of commentaries to Aristotle. — Hoefer, Biographie Generale, 3, 795.