BARTOLOMEO OF VICENZA, also called of Breganze, Blessed. - Dominican, b. Sept. 18, ca. 1200, d. at Vicenza in 1270; a celebrated preacher, mystical writer, and distinguished for the many offices he held in the service of the Church. That he belonged to the family of the counts of Breganze (a castle near Vicenza) is known only by tradition, confirmed by no document of the time.

A student at Padua, he embraced the Order of St. Dominic and became a famous preacher. In 1233 he established at Parma the Milizia di Gesù Cristo (not to be confused with the later Militia Beatae Mariae Virginis, or of the Frati Gaudenti). He was afterward appointed penitentiary and pontifical chaplain, and by Innocent IV lector (later called Master of the Sacred Palace) of the theological studium of the Curia. He was then bishop of Limassol in Cyprus (1252-55), whence he was transferred to Vicenza (1255-70). Alexander IV sent him on a diplomatic mission to the courts of London and Paris; on this occasion Louis IX gave him a relic of the Holy Crown, for which at Vicenza he built the Gothic church of the same name. Pius VI beatified him in 1793, and his feast falls on Oct. 23.

Of his works, all unpublished, those preserved in manuscripts are indicated by Käppeli: Expositio Cantici Canticorum; De venatione divini amoris, and three cycles of Sermones: De b. Virgine; In festis Iesu Christi; De epistolis et evangelis dominicalibus post Trinitatem. Other works are lost.

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BIBL.: Salimbene, Chronica, ed. Holder-Egger, in MGH, Scriptores, XXXII, pp. 73 ff., 467, 595; Ughelli, V, col. 1052 ff.; J. Quétif-J. Echard, Scriptores O. P., I, Paris 1719, coll. 254-59; [G. I. Faccioli], Vita e virtù del b. B. dei conti di B., Parma 1794; Acta SS. Julii, I, Paris 1867, pp. 246-55; ibid. Maii, III, ibid. 1866, pp. 692-94; M. De Waresquiel, Le b. B. De B., ibid. 1904; A. De Stefano, Le origini dei frati gaudenti, Rome 1915, p. 8 ff.; R. Creytens, in Arch. Ord. Praed., 12 (1942), p. 61 ff.; A. Zucchi, La S. Penitenzieria apostolica e l'Ordine di S. Domenico, Florence 1942, p. 42; T. Käppeli, Der literarische Nachlass des sel. Bartholomäus von Vicenza O. P., in Mélanges Auguste Peltzer, Louvain 1947, pp. 275-301.

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