ABSTRACT
Carranza was nominated for the archiépiscopal see of Toledo by Philip II in the Low Countries in 1557, and on 27 February 1558 was consecrated at Brussels by Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Bishop of Arras and member of Philip's Council of State for the Netherlands. He would remain a prisoner for the next sixteen years and seven months and twenty-four days, as Salazar de Mendoza carefully informs, at Valladolid and then in Rome. Carranza's was a life-story that cried out to be recorded in detail and reflected upon. Dominican support for Carranza and his Catechism would remain consistendy strong through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was, however, at the urging of another archbishop of Toledo, Gaspar de Quiroga, that Salazar undertook his biography of Carranza. The outcome of that long investigation of Carranza's theological position as expressed in his writings set limits to how any seventeenth-century Spaniard could treat the subject.
