BACCINELLI, GIUSEPPE. - Discalced Carmelite, Bernardino di S. Teresa in religion, missionary and bishop; born in Rome (15 March 1807), where he professed on 8 Dec. 1824; he went to Malabar in 1833, where he was rector of the Syro-Malabar seminary at Verapoly (1833–36 and 1839–46) and parish priest of Verapoly (1835) and Cunemao (1836–39). When, in 1845, Malabar was divided into three vicariates (Verapoly, Mangalore, Quilon), he was appointed pro-vicar of Quilon (1847). From 1853 he was coadjutor to the apostolic vicar of Verapoly and administrator of Quilon, until 1859, when he assumed the government of Verapoly with the title of archbishop of Farsala. In order to promote the education of the indigenous clergy, he brought together the minor Syro-Malabar seminaries into a central seminary at Puthenpally (1866); he introduced the practice of popular missions and spiritual exercises and established a Regular Third Order among the indigenous clergy according to the Carmelite rule (1855, 1860). He died at Verapoly on 5 Sept. 1868.
Ambrogio di Santa Teresa