Maurílio Teixeira-Leite Penido

Maurílio Teixeira-Leite Penido (Petrópolis, November 2, 1895 - Rio de Janeiro, June 23, 1970) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic priest, writer, philosopher, and professor.^[1][2]

Born in Petrópolis into a wealthy family, Penido moved to Paris together with his widowed mother at age eleven. He studied literature at the Sorbonne, where he was a pupil of Henri Bergson, then went to Rome to further his education at the Pontifical Gregorian University, before completing his formation at the University of Fribourg, where he later became a professor. He taught at the National Faculty of Philosophy, now incorporated into the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.^[3]

His writings have been noted by René Guénon, Yves Congar, Régis Jolivet, Jacques Maritain, Henrique Cláudio de Lima Vaz, and Olavo de Carvalho.^[4][5]

• A Função da Analogia na Teologia Dogmática. Editora Vozes Limitada. Petrópolis, R.J. 1946
• Deus no Bergsonismo. 1993.
• Le methode de Bergson. 1993.
• Newman. 1994.
• O Itinerário Místico de São João da Cruz. Rio de Janeiro: Diadorim. 1995.