Balthazar Francolini (1650–1709) was a Jesuit theologian. He was born in Fermo and became a professor of philosophy at the Gregorian University in Rome. He was an attritionist, holding that imperfect contrition (attritio) was sufficient to receive the sacrament. He opposed the more rigorous heresy of Jansenism, writing Clericus Romanus Contra Nimium Rigorismum Munitus in 1707. References 1650 births 1709 deaths 17th-century Italian Jesuits People from Fermo 17th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians 18th-century Italian Jesuits