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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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