FRANCIS, a Jesuit, was born in Granada in Spain, in January 1548. He was a professor of theology at Alcala, Salamanca, Rome, and Coimbra in Portugal. He died at Lisbon in 1617 with the greatest resignation; "I never thought (said he) that it was so easy to die." His memory was astonishing, he could repeat the whole of his voluminous works by heart. His writings fill 23 folio volumes, and are mostly on theological and moral subjects. His Treatise of Laws has been reprinted in this country. His Defence of the Catholic Faith against the Errors of England was written at the request of Pope Paul V. This book was publicly burnt at London by order of James I. When Suares heard it, he is said to have exclaimed, "O that I too could seal with my blood the truths which I have defended with my pen!"