Louvain
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University city in the Duchy of Brabant, part of the Spanish Netherlands. Cornelius a Lapide held the chair of Sacred Scripture at the University of Louvain for more than twenty years before being summoned to Rome. The Jesuit Louvain College was also based here.
Preliminaries
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Title Page
— Lapide described as formerly professor at Louvain
"formerly professor of Holy Scripture at Louvain, afterwards at Rome"
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THE LIFE OF CORNELIUS A LAPIDE.
— Lapide taught at Louvain for more than twenty years
"He taught the Sacred Language and Holy Scripture publicly at Louvain for more than twenty years"
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TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI.
— The Louvain College's esteem for Van der Burch
"this token and pledge of the love and esteem which I, the Louvain College, and our whole Society bear toward you"
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Chapter IV: The Judgments and Examples of the Fathers
— Louvain described as the granddaughter academy of Paris
"so ancient is this academy, which is the mother of Cologne and the grandmother of Louvain"