Raimundo Diosdado Caballero

Who was Raimundo Diosdado Caballero?

Raimundo Diosdado Caballero was a Catholic miscellaneous writer, chiefly ecclesiastical.

Born at Palma in the island of Majorca on June 19, 1740. He entered the Society of Jesus on November 15, 1752, held the chair of literature in the Jesuit College at Madrid for several years, and was deported with the other Jesuits to Italy when the Society was suppressed in the Spanish dominions. In his new home Father Caballero developed a varied literary activity. The following are the most important of his works:

De Primá typographiae hispanicae aetate specimen;

Commentariola critica, primum de discipliná arcani, secundum de linguá evangelicá. The author corrects in this work what he considers to be the mistakes of Emmanuel Schelstrate and Hardouin, and offers a proof that the native tongue of Christ and the Apostles was Syriac, not Greek, as Dominicus Diodati had maintained in his De Christo loquente exercitatio.

Bibliothecae Scriptorum Societatis Jesu supplementa. Supplementum primum,

Supplementum primum,

Supplementum alterum.

Father Caballero shows his scriptural knowledge in his Tetraglotton D. Marei Evangelium, et Marcologia critica; and El Evangelio de S. Marcos escrito en latin, griego y hebreo, con los tres alfabetos.