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Bernardino d'Asti

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BERNARDINO D'ASTI. - Capuchin, b. ca. 1484 in the castle of Rinco near Asti, d. in Rome in 1554. He entered the Order of Observant Friars Minor in 1499. He was head of the Roman Province and joined the Capuchins when these, after 1528, began to form a separate family. He was appointed vicar general of the Order in Nov. 1535, after Paul III had ordered Fr. Ludovico of Fossombrone to leave that office. In 1546 he took part in the Council of Trent as a theologian; in 1549, through his efforts, the first Capuchin missionaries reached Egypt and the Holy Land. To him the Order owes its internal organization and its definitive constitutions.

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BIBL.: A. Tectaert, s. v. in DHG, VIII, coll. 783-85; Bernardino da Colpetrazzo, Hist. Ord. Fratrum Capuc., in Monumenta hist. Ord., Min. Capuc., IV, Rome 1941, pp. 123-25.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), col. 1405.

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Morseletto, Maria. “Bernardino d'Asti.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1405. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/bernardino-d-asti.

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Morseletto, Maria. “Bernardino d'Asti.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1405. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/bernardino-d-asti.

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  title     = {Bernardino d'Asti},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
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