BERNARDINO d'AQUILA (AMICI), beato. - Famous Franciscan preacher and writer, b. at Fossa in 1420, d. at San Giuliano near L'Aquila on 22 or 27 Nov. 1503. Leo XII approved his cult on 26 March 1828. Directed toward the cloister, while he was a student of law at the University of Perugia, by a discourse of St. James of the March, he entered the Minorite Order in 1445. Provincial vicar in the Abruzzi for about 10 years, he was also provincial in Dalmatia and Bosnia and procurator general of the Observance. He refused, according to Wadding, the bishopric of L'Aquila. He wrote many works, in Latin and Italian, some of them also of interest to the history of the sacred drama, for the most part unpublished.

The following were printed: Ammonizioni del b. B. aquilano da Fossa nell'anno 1491 composte (Venice 1572); Fuserale, (Venice 1572, a collection of 32 discourses); Peregrinus (Venice 1573); Chronica Fratrum Minorum de Observantia (ed. L. Lemmens, Rome 1902). Noteworthy among the unpublished works: Centurio (100 discourses), whose autograph is in the library of S. Marco, Venice (Z. L., LXXXIX Bess.); De quolibet statu fidelium, ibid. (Z. L., CXLIII Bess.).

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BIBL.: Marco da Lisbona, Croniche degli Ordini instituti dal p. S. Francesco, III, VII, Naples 1680, chap. 38; Ugone da Pescocostanzo, Vita del b. B. da Possa..., Naples 1872; L. Wadding, Annales, XII-XV, passim; id., Script. pp. 40-41; I. H. Sbaraka, Suppl., I, pp. 131-32; C. Coletti, Monografia del b. B. da Possa, Turin 1900; G. D'Agostino, S. Francesco e i Francescani negli Abruzzi, III, Lanciano 1927, pp. 148-58; ASS. Nov., III, Brussels 1910, pp. 686-723.

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Bernardino d'Aquila (Amici), Blessed

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