Bernardino of Fossa (b. at
Fossa
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Animals
* Fossa (animal), the common name of a carnivoran mammal of genus ''Cryptoprocta'' endemic to Madagascar
* ''Fossa'', the Latin genus name of the Malagasy civet, a related but smaller mammal endemic to Madagascar
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, in the
Diocese of Aquila, Italy, in 1420; d. at Aquila, 27 November 1503) was an Italian
Franciscan
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historian and
ascetical
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writer.
Life
Bernardino belonged to the ancient and noble family of the Amici, and sometimes bears the name of Aquilanus on account of his long residence and death in the town of Aquila. He received his early training at Aquila and thence went to Perugia to study canon and civil law. On 12 March 1445, he received the habit from
James of the Marches
Jacob de Marchia ( la, Jacobus de Marchia, it, Giacomo della Marca; c. 1391 – 28 November 1476), commonly known in English as Saint James of the Marches, was an Italian Friar Minor, preacher and writer. He was a Papal legate and Inquisitor.
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who was then preaching a course of Lenten sermons at Perugia.
Bernardine was provincial of the province of St. Bernardine and of the province of Dalmatia and Bosnia, and would have been chosen
Bishop of Aquila
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on 26 March 1828. His feast is kept in the Franciscan Order on 7 November.
Works
The writings of Bernardino include several sermons and short ascetical and historical works, including the ''Chronica Fratrum Minorum Observantiae''. This chronicle was first edited by
Leonard Lemmens
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The given name and surname originate from the Old High German ''Leonhard'' containing the prefix ''levon'' ("lion") from the Greek Λέων ("lion") through the Latin '' L ...
, O.F.M., from the autograph manuscript, and is prefaced by a life of Bernardino and a critical estimate of his writings. Bernardino was the author of the first life of his patron,
Bernardino of Siena.
References
*Leo, ''Lives of the Saints and Blessed of the Three Orders of St. Francis'' (Taunton, 1887), IV, 42–44;
*Lemmens, ''Chronica Fratrum Minorum Observantiae B. Bernardini Aquilani'' (Rome, 1905);
*
Luke Wadding
Luke Wadding, O.F.M. (16 October 158818 November 1657), was an Irish Franciscan friar and historian.
Life
Early life
Wadding was born on 16 October 1588 in Waterford to Walter Wadding of Waterford, a wealthy merchant, and his wife, Anastasia ...
, ''Annales Minorum'', XII, 277- 480;
*
Hugo von Hurter
The von Hurter family belonged to the Swiss nobility; in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries three of them were known for their conversions to Roman Catholicism, their ecclesiastical careers in Austria and their theological writings.
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, ''Nomenclator'', IV, 968;
*Hugh a Pescocostanza, ''Vita del B. Bernardino da Fossa'' (Naples, 1872)
External links
''Catholic Encyclopedia'' article
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1420 births
1503 deaths
People from the Province of L'Aquila
University of Perugia alumni
Italian Franciscans
Italian chroniclers
15th-century Italian historians