Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: Luis de Molina ( September 1535 , Cuenca , Spain -- October 12 , 1600 , Madrid , Spain ) , was a Spanish Jesuit priest and a staunch defender of ` human liberty ' in the Divine grace and human liberty controversy of the Renaissance ( Molinism ) .
Simplified: Luis de Molina ( born 1535 in Cuenca ; died October 12 , 1600 in Madrid ) was a Spanish Jesuit and writer .