Bernardine a Piconio (Henri Bernardine de Picquigny) (1633 – 8 December 1709) was a French Capuchin theologian and

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Biography

Bernardine a Piconio was born and educated at

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, and joined the Capuchins in 1649. As professor of theology he shed great lustre upon his order; his best-known work is his ''Triplex expositio epistolarum sancti Pauli'' (Paris, 1703

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1706 nglish, tr. Prichard London, 1888), popular among Scriptural scholars. Piconio also wrote ''Triplex expositio in sacrosancta D. N. Jesu Christi Evangelia'' (Paris, 1726), and a book of moral instructions. A complete edition of his works, ''Opera omnia Bernardini a Piconio'', was published at Paris (1870–1872). He died in Paris.

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