MATTHIAS FABER.
Matthias Faber was born at Neumarkt, in Bavaria, in
the year 1586. He was appointed to the cure of the
parish of St. Maurice in Ingolstadt, and to the professorship
of the University in that town. Whilst there
he published three volumes of sermons for every Sunday
in the year, and these have gone through six editions.
He was much regarded as a preacher, and deservedly so, for he was a man full of learning and genius, though not remarkable for his eloquence.
In the year 1637, at the age of fifty-one, he was received into the Society of Jesus at Vienna, and continued after his reception to preach with considerable success. He then published another volume of sermons for all the Sundays and the principal festivals of the year. This book, divided into two parts, is called the Auctuarium, and was thenceforward published along with the former volumes. The Concionum opus tripartitum, together with the Auctuarium, contain one thousand and ninety-six sermons. Besides these, he preached funeral and marriage orations, published after his death, which took place on the 26th of April, 1653, at Tyrnau.
