a distinguished Jesuit, born at Brussels in 1588, wrote several historical and theological works lie is celebrated on account of his Pia desideria emblematibus illustrata (1624, 8vo; 1629, 12mo; translated into English as Divine Addresses, by Edmund Arkwater. 3rd edit. corrected, London 1702, 8vo). He died of the plague at Rheinberg Sept. 10, 1629. See Darling, Cyclop. Bibl. 2, 1572; Nouv. Dict. Hist. p. 336.