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Nicola Saggio
Nicola Saggio was an Italian Roman Catholic professed oblate of the Order of Minims. He was beatified on 17 September 1786 and was canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on 23 November 2014.Announcement during the consistory of 12 June 12, 2014 Life Nicola Saggio was born on 6 January 1650 in Longobardi, a small town on the Tyrrhenian coast. His parents were Fulvio Saggio, a farmer, and Aurelia Saggio née Pizzini. He was the first of five children while the twins Antonio and Domenica followed and then Nicola and Muzio. He was baptized in the names of "Giovanni Battista Clemente" on 10 January 1650. His parents raised him with high moral and spiritual values and instilled in him a Christian education. He visited the convent of the Minims which made him desire the religious life as his path in life. He was famous as a catechist in Longobardi and in Roman circles. A further change in his spiritual life was recorded in 1683 after a pilgrimage on foot to Loreto to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canonization
Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints, or authorized list of that communion's recognized saints. Catholic Church Canonization is a papal declaration that the Catholic faithful may venerate a particular deceased member of the church. Popes began making such decrees in the tenth century. Up to that point, the local bishops governed the veneration of holy men and women within their own dioceses; and there may have been, for any particular saint, no formal decree at all. In subsequent centuries, the procedures became increasingly regularized and the Popes began restricting to themselves the right to declare someone a Catholic saint. In contemporary usage, the term is understood to refer to the act by which any Christian church declares that a person who has died is a sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolò Longobardo
Nicolò Longobardo (1559-1654), Chinese name Long Huamin (), was a Sicilian Jesuit in China in the 17th century. He arrived there in 1597, and was sent to the area of Shaozhou. He became the successor of Matteo Ricci in 1610 as Superior General of the Jesuit China mission. He was replaced as Superior by Giovanni Aroccia in 1622, but continued preaching in China until around 90 years of age. The Jesuit's name also appears in historical sources as Nicholas Longobardi and Niccolo Longobardi, with the birth and death years given as 1565–1655.. He was buried in the Jesuits' Zhalan Cemetery Zhalan Cemetery ( zh, 滕公栅栏; zh, p=ténggōng zhàlan) is a former Jesuit burial ground in Beijing. It was initially established in the late Ming Dynasty for the burial of Matteo Ricci. The current setup is a restoration using origin ... in Beijing. References 1559 births 1654 deaths 16th-century Italian Jesuits 17th-century Italian Jesuits Jesuit missionaries in China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
