ADRAGNA, ANTONIO MARIA. - B. at Trapani on 1 Oct. 1818, professed religious (2 Oct. 1839) of the Conventual Minors, priest in 1841, doctor of the college of S. Bonaventura in Rome (1844), and professor of theology (Würzburg, Assisi, Perugia, Palermo). Called to Rome by Pius IX in 1861 as consultor of the Holy Office, he was subsequently one of the eight members of the “Dogmatic Commission” preparing for the Vatican Council, in which he took a very active part (1866). Elected minister general (1852), during the period of governmental suppressions he was obliged to live in exile in Holland and Belgium. He resigned in 1879, withdrawing to the college of the Vatican Penitentiaries in Rome, where he died on 14 Oct. 1890.
Of his work as a theologian there remain the Voti, much esteemed; among other writings, a Quarestinale and a valuable Commento sulla Div. Comm. were lost (cf. L'Osservatore Romano, 17 Apr. 1914).