Bernardino of Siena
Bernardino of Siena, OFM (Bernardine; 8 September 1380 – 20 May 1444), was an Italian Catholic priest and Franciscan missionary preacher in Italy. He was a systematizer of scholastic economics.
Saint
Bernardino of Siena
OFM
8 September 1380
Massa Marittima, Republic of Siena, Holy Roman Empire
20 May 1444 (aged 63)
Aquila, Kingdom of Naples, Holy Roman Empire
24 November 1449
24 May 1450, Rome, Papal States by Pope Nicholas V
20 May
Tablet with IHS; three mitres representing the bishoprics which he refused
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His preaching, his book burnings, and his "bonfires of the vanities" established his reputation in his own lifetime; they were frequently directed against gambling, infanticide, sorcery/witchcraft, sodomy (chiefly among homosexual males), Jews, Romani "Gypsies", usury, and the like.
Bernardino was canonised by Pope Nicholas V in 1450 and is referred to as "the Apostle of Italy" for his efforts to revive the country's Catholicism during the 15th century.[1]
Sources[edit]
Two hagiographies of Bernardino of Siena were written by two of his friends; the one the same year in which he died, by Barnaba of Siena; the other by the humanist Maffeo Vegio. Another important contemporary biographical source is that written by the Sienese diplomat Leonardo Benvoglienti, who was another personal acquaintance of Bernardino's.[2] The historian Franco Mormando notes that "[t]he first works to be produced about Bernardine right after his death [in 1444] were biographical: by the year 1480, there were already over a dozen written accounts of the preacher's life".[3]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "St. Bernardine of Siena". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
