See also:SAINT See also:ANTONIO PIEROZZI See also:ANTONINUS
, also called DE FORCIGLIONI] (1389-1459), See also:archbishop of See also:Florence, was See also:born at that See also:city on the 1st of See also:March 1389
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He entered the Dominican See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order in his 16th See also:year, and was soon entrusted, in spite of his youth, with the See also:government of various houses of his order at See also:Cortona, See also:Rome, See also:Naples and Florence, which he laboured zealously to reform
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He was consecrated archbishop of Florence in 1446, and won the esteem and love of his See also:people, especially by his See also:energy and resource in combating the effects of the See also:plague and See also:earthquake in 1448 and 1453• He died on the 2nd of May 1459, and was canonized by See also:Pope See also:Adrian VI. in 1523
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His feast is annually celebrated on the 13th of May
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See also:Antoninus had a See also:great reputation for theological learning, and, sat as papal theologian at the See also:council of Florence (1439)
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Of his various See also:works, the See also:list of which is given in Quetif-Echard, De Scriptoribus Ord
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Praedicat., i
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818, the best-known are his Summa theologica (See also:Venice, 1477; See also:Verona, 1740) and the Summa confessionalis (See also:Mondovi, 1472), invaluable to confessors
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See Bolland, Acta Sanctorum, i., and U
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See also:Chevalier, See also:Rep. See also:des. s.hist
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(1905), pp
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285-286
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