Triumphus, Augustinus

Triumphus, Augustinus an Augustinian hermit monk who was a native of Ancona, attended the University of Paris for a time, and was present at the Council of Lyons in 1274. He also sojourned at Venice while engaged in the publication of several small books in honor of the Virgin, and at Naples, where he became the favorite of kings Charles and Robert, and where he died in 1328, at the age of eighty-five years. A number of published and unpublished works from his pen are yet extant. We note one On the Ecclesiastical Power, addressed to pope John XXII (Augsburg, 1473): — A Commentary on the

Lord's Prayer: — Comments on the Ave Maria and the Magnificat (Rome, 1590, 1592, 1603): — a Milleloquium from the works of Augustine, unfinished by Triumphus, but completed by the Augustinian Bartholomew of Urbino (Lyons, 1555). Of unpublished writings we mention, Four Books on the Sentences: — On the Holy Ghost, a polemic against the Greeks: — On the Spiritual Hymn: — On the Entrance into the Land of Promise: — On the Knowledge and Faculties of the Soul: — Theorems respecting the Resurrection of the Dead: — Expositions of Ezekiel and all New Test. Books: — Discourses of the Lord: — On the Saints: — On the Moralia of St. Gregory. See Pamphilius, Chronicles Eremit. S. August. p. 46; Cave, Script. Eccl. Hist. Lit. (Gen, 1720). — Herzog, Real-Encyklop. s.v.