BERNARDINO da PORTOGRUARO. - Minister General of the Friars Minor (Giuseppe Dal Vago), b. 15 Jan. 1822 at Portogruaro, d. at Quaracchi on 7 May 1895. Educated at the college of St. Catherine in Venice, he entered the Reformed Franciscans in Nov. 1839, was ordained priest in 1844, and was a much-applauded preacher. In 1862 he was elected in Rome procurator general for the Reformed; on 9 March 1869 Pius IX appointed him general of the entire Franciscan Order. During his generalate he founded the institute of St. Bonaventure at Quaracchi for the critical edition of St. Bonaventure and of other celebrated Franciscan scholastics, and the international college of St. Anthony in Rome, and succeeded in giving new expansion to the Order, which had been disturbed by the suppressions. He began the Acta Ordinis Fratrum Minorum (1882). He personally visited the Minorite provinces, assisted at the rise and prosperity of monasteries of Poor Clares and of female Congregations of tertiaries, and gave new impetus to the missions of the Order. Oppressed by years and labors, he left the generalate in 1889 and retired to Quaracchi. On 4 Aug. 1892 Leo XIII created him titular archbishop of Sardica. The process of beatification has been introduced.

Bibliography

BIBL.: I. Beschin, Vita del Servo di Dio p. B. Dal Vago da P., Ministro Generale dei Frati Minori, Arcivescovo di Sardica (1822-95), 2 voll., Treviso 1927.

Silvio Furlani

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