Maurílio Teixeira-Leite Penido

Born in Petrópolis into a wealthy family, Penido moved to Paris together with his widowed mother at age eleven. He studied literature and philosophy at the University of Paris, 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, a former unit of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.^[2]

His writings have been noted by René Guénon, Yves Congar, Régis Jolivet, Jacques Maritain, Henrique Cláudio de Lima Vaz, and Olavo de Carvalho.^[3][4]

• A Função da Analogia na Teologia Dogmática. Editora Vozes Limitada. Petrópolis, R.J. 1946
• Iniciação Teológica - vol 1: O Mistério da Igreja. 1954.
• Iniciação Teológica - vol 2: O Mistério dos Sacramentos.
• Iniciação Teológica - vol 3: O Mistério de Cristo.
• Deus no Bergsonismo. 1993.
• Le methode de Bergson. 1993.
• Newman. 1994.
• O Itinerário Místico de São João da Cruz. Rio de Janeiro: Diadorim. 1995.