• December 13th - Bl John Marinoni

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    From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

    December 13th - Bl John Marinoni
    Also known as Francesco Marinoni, Giovanni Marinoni

    d. 1562

    This servant of God is the last in order of date of official
    veneration to be included in Alban Butler's text and is one of the =
    few
    beati (whether officially or popularly so called) admitted by him into
    his work. The cultus of Bl. John was authorized by Pope Clement XIII
    in 1762, so that Butler must have written the notice of him to be
    added to the second edition.

    Francis Marinoni was the third and youngest son of a good family of
    Bergamo, but was born at Venice in 1490. Having entered the
    ecclesiastical state, he served among the clergy of St. Pantaleon's
    church; and when he was ordained priest became chaplain, and
    afterwards superior, of the hospital for incurables at Venice. He was
    called thence to be a canon in the church of St. Mark, where his life
    was the edification of his colleagues and of the whole city. Out of a
    desire of serving God more effectively he resigned his benefice and in
    1528 joined the clerks regular called Theatines. He made his
    profession in 1530, being then forty, under the eyes of their
    founders, St. Cajetan and Mgr Caraffa, and on this occasion changed
    his first name for John.

    When St. Cajetan was called from Venice to found the house of clerks
    regular of St. Paul at Naples he took Marinoni with him. In that city
    he never ceased to preach the word of God with admirable simplicity
    and fruitfulness, and was chosen several times superior of his
    community, which he maintained in a perfect spirit of apostolic
    charity and zeal. Both by his prayers and by his exhortations in the
    pulpit and confessional he was an instrument of salvation to many.
    When St. Cajetan came back to Naples in 1543 Bl. John was his
    right-hand man in the establishment of montes pietatis, benevolent
    pawnshops for the help of the poor, in the city and its neighbourhood.
    He refused the office of archbishop of Naples, and died there on
    December 13, 1562, ministered to by St. Andrew Avellino, who wrote an
    account of his former novice-master.

    See a biography by J. L. Bianchi, Ragguaglio della vita del B.
    Giovanni Marinoni (1763), and another sketch by J. Silos, republished
    in view of the beatification in 1762.


    Saint Quote:
    Everyone--past, present, and future--will be judged. Now, then, is the
    time for mercy, while the time to come will be the time for justice
    only. For that reason, the present time is ours, but the future time
    will
    --St. Thomas Aquinas

    Bible Quote:
    Blessed is the rich man that is found without blemish: and that hath
    not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures. 9
    Who is he, and we will praise him? for he hath done wonderful things
    in his life. (Ecclesiasticus 31:8-9)


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    FIRST RULE--GOD'S WILL

    WHATEVER leads away from God is contrary to the Will of God. Whatever
    attracts towards God is in accordance with the Divine Will. =E2=80=9CFor th=
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    is the Will of God, your sanctification.=E2=80=9D [I Thess. IV. 3]
    Therefore, if anyone detect any such thing in himself as to be
    constrained to confess that this business, this society, this trade,
    this way of living, does not make me more holy, but I am being led
    away from God, though gradually and by easy steps, it follows that
    neither that business, nor that society, nor that trade, nor that way
    of living, is according to the Divine Will.


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