ALESSANDRO OF SAINT FRANCIS. - Discalced Carmelite ascetical writer, of the noble Ubaldini family (by name Lelio), b. in Rome on 18 Oct. 1588, d. there on 16 Apr. 1630. He entered the Carmel on 1 Apr. 1605. In 1614 he was sent to France as master of novices, then elected definitor of the nascent province of France (1617-19). Having returned to Rome, he was prior of the convent of the Scala (1619-22), provincial of the Roman province (1622-25), and definitor general (1629).

He left the following works: Manuale pauperum ad thesaurizandos thesauros in coelo, Lyon 1630, Turin 1872 (Italian translation: Parma 1649, Siena 1879); De praesentia Dei; Schola virtutum; Horologium animae; Solliopnia animae fidelis; Epistolae. All these works were published together, at Lyon (1633) and Rome (1670-71, in 2 vols.). He also translated the Works of St. John of the Cross into Italian (Rome 1637).

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BIBL.: Philippus Mr. a S. Paulo, Vita del Ven. P. Alessandro..., Rome 1668; Philippus a Trin., Decor Carmeli, III, Lyon 1665, p. 81.

Ambrogio di Santa Teresa

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Alessandro of Saint Francis

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