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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=
is
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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