• =?UTF-8?Q?June_8th_=E2=80=93_Bl=2E_Pacifico_of_Cerano?=

    From rich@1:396/4 to All on Mon Jun 7 10:26:44 2021
    From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

    June 8th =E2=80=93 Bl. Pacifico of Cerano

    Born at Novara in Piedmont in the year 1424. His parents died when he
    was very young, and he was educated in the Benedictine abbey of his
    native city. He then took the habit in the Franciscan convent of the
    strict observance, being about twenty-one years of age, and he became
    one of the most learned ecclesiastics of his time. After his
    ordination he laboured chiefly as a preacher in Italy, conducting many successful missions between the years 1452 and 1471.

    His evangelistic work was interrupted by a visit to Sardinia, where he
    went with a commission from Pope Sixtus IV to redress certain
    disorders and irregularities that had crept into the church. He was
    induced to write a treatise on moral theology, which was published in
    Milan in 1475 and was long regarded as the standard work on that
    subject, though aiming at simple explanations, intelligible to all. He
    entitled it Sometta di Pacifica Coscienza, but it was commonly known
    as Somma Pacifica. He resumed his mission work, labouring chiefly in
    the north of Italy and using as his headquarters the convent of
    Vigevano which he had founded in the diocese of Novara.

    In 1480 came another summons to go to Sardinia, this time as visitor
    and commissary general for the convents of the strict observance, and
    also as apostolic nuncio charged by Pope Sixtus IV to proclaim a
    crusade against Mohammed II. The order arrived when he was preaching
    at Cerano. He knew that he had not long to live, and in his farewell
    address he said: =E2=80=9CI ask you to do me this favour-- that when you he=
    ar
    of my death, you will have my poor wretched remains brought back to my
    native land, so that I may be buried in this dear church which I have
    built in honour of the Blessed Virgin.=E2=80=9D He went to Sardinia, but ha=
    d
    scarcely begun to preach the crusade when he was taken ill. He died at
    Sassari on June 4, 1482. In compliance with his request his body was
    taken back to Cerano, where a church was afterwards built in his
    honour. The cult of Bl. Pacifico was confirmed in 1745.

    An account of Bl. Pacifico is furnished in an appendix to the June
    volume i of the Acta Sanctorum. He is also prominent in Wadding's
    Scnptores, and in the Annales Ordinis Minorum, vol. xiv. See further,
    the Miscellanea Franciscana, vols. iii and vii, and Leon's Aur=C3=
    =A9ole
    S=C3=A9raphique (Eng. trans.), vol. ii, pp. 352-355. Small separate lives
    have been published by M. Cazzola and by another writer, who remains
    anonymous.


    Saint Quote:
    Had you but tasted one drop of the sweetness which inebriates the
    souls of those religious from their worship of this Sacrament, you
    would never have written as you have, nor have apostatized from the
    faith that you formerly professed.
    -- Saint John Fisher

    Bible Quote
    Let your spirits be renewed so that you can put on the new self that
    has been created in God's way, in the goodness and holiness of the
    truth.=C2 (Ephesians 4:23-24)


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    Reflection:

    The more you know and the better you understand,
    the more severely will you be judged,
    unless your life is also the more holy.
    Do not be proud, therefore, because of your learning or skill.
    Rather, fear because of the talent given you.
    --Thomas =C3=A1 Kempis

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