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Andrea Grego da Peschiera, Blessed

ANDREA GREGO DA PESCHIERA, BEATO

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Also known as: apostle of Valtellina; Italian: apostolo della Valtellina

ANDREA GREGO da PESCHIERA, beato. - Dominican, b. in 1400 to poor peasants at Peschiera del Garda, d. between 16 and 19 January 1485. He took the Dominican habit at Brescia and completed his studies of philosophy and theology in the convent of St. Mark in Florence. For about 45 years he spent his apostolic action and preaching in Valtellina, whence the appellation of "apostle of Valtellina." He preached in Engadine and even in the valleys of the Rhine. From 1445 he concerned himself with the founding of a convent at Morbegno. Pius VII approved his cult on 23 September 1820. Feast in the Order of Preachers on 19 January.

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BIBL.: Anon., Raccolta delle gesta e culto del beato Andrea, Venice 1752; A. M. Chiesa, Vite di alcuni Beati... della Valtellina, Milan 1752; Acta SS. Maii, V, Paris 1866, pp. 627-30; G. A. Tam, Santi e Beati in Valtellina, Como 1923, pp. 175-203.

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By Angelo Walz

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 1198.

More by Angelo Walz: Angela della Pace · Annius of Viterbo (properly Nanni, Giovanni, in humanist style Annus: «Brother Johannes Annus Viterbiensis») · Antonia of Brescia · Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence, Saint · Aquilini, Ignazio

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Walz, Angelo. “Andrea Grego da Peschiera, beato.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 1198. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/andrea-grego-da-peschiera-beato.

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Walz, Angelo. “Andrea Grego da Peschiera, beato.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 1198. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/andrea-grego-da-peschiera-beato.

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  title     = {Andrea Grego da Peschiera, beato},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
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