SEGALA, ALESSIO da SALÒ. - Capuchin preacher and writer on asceticism, b. at Salò in 1558, entered the Order in 1580, d. at Brescia on 8 January 1628.

He wrote short ascetical works, collected in the Opere spirituali, Venice 1623; 1637; 1643 with additions. Practical in tendency, he instructs and engages the soul in the struggle against vices and in the conquest of virtues with the Pratica singolare, Brescia 1611, and with the Via sicura del Paradiso, ibid. 1617. In the Trionfo delle anime del Purgatorio, ibid. 1620, he stimulates [the faithful] to exercises in their suffrage: for this purpose he established a confraternity in Brescia and elsewhere.

Bibliography5 works

BIBL.: Valdemiro Bonari da Bergamo, I conventi e i Cappuccini bresciani, Milan 1891, pp. 132-36; Emidio d'Ascoli, d. S., in DSp. I (1937), coll. 306-307; Ilarino da Milano, Bibl. dei Min. Capp. di Lombardia, Florence 1937, pp. 8-50; Melchierre da Pobladura, Hist. gener. Ord. Min. Capucc., I, Rome 1947, pp. 178, 182, 191, 195-96, 200; Lex. Capucc., Rome 1951, col. 39.

Ilarino da Milano

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Segala, Alessio da Salò

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