CANISIUS, PETER, also Kannees, Kanys (1521-1597), Jesuit scholar, was born in Nijmwegen, Holland, on May 8, 1521. He was educated at Cologne, and of ter becoming a Jesuit in taught successively at the universities of Cologne, Ingolstadt and Vienna. Perhaps more than any of his contemporaries, Canisius delayed the advance of Protestantism by his participation in the religious discussions at Worms, at the Council of Trent and the Diet of Augsburg, by his friendship with the emperor and numer ous magnates, by his zealous preaching in various German towns, by the extension of his own order and especially by his desire to provide worthy and scholarly priests. In 158o he settled in Frei burg i/B. where he died on Dec. 21, He was beatified on Nov. 20, 1869.