ANDREA d'ARCO. - Franciscan, missionary and ascetic writer, b. at Arco in 1597 to the Zanoni family, d. at Borgo Valsugana in 1674. He governed the prefecture of the mission of Egypt, where he labored indefatigably to obtain the union with the Roman Church of the Coptic and Greek patriarchates. Elected custos of the Holy Land in 1639, he remained in office for a very turbulent six-year term. He was then commissioner of the Holy Land at the Holy See and provincial of the new province of Trent, whose erection he promoted. Antonio Maria da Vicenza lists 14 of his writings, predominantly of an ascetic-mystical character. We note: Trattato dell'oratione mentale; Avvertimenti per un Maestro di novizi, specialmente francescani; Selva di ss. Padri, divisa in mille concetti.

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: L. Wadding, Annales Minorum, XXVII, Quaracchi 1921, pp. 357-451; XXVIII, ibid., passim: Antonio Maria da Vicenza, Scriptores Ordinis Fratrum minorum provinciae s. Antonii Venetiarum, Venice 1877, pp. 48-50; L. Rosat, Missionari della provincia francescana di Trento tra gli eretici e gli infedeli, in Contributi alla Storia dei Frati minori della provincia di Trento, Trent 1926, pp. 247-50.

Felicissimo Tinivella

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