BERNARDO d'OSIMO. - Capuchin, born at Osimo (Ancona) around 1527 into a poor family; he died there in the odour of sanctity on 23 August 1591. He entered the Capuchins when already of mature age; he distinguished himself by his austere observance and cultivated Seraphic poverty to the point of heroism. Sent to France with other brethren in order to establish the Capuchin reform there, he was elected provincial of Paris. He enjoyed the esteem and friendship of Enrico III. He received Angelo da Joyeuse and Benedetto da Canfield into the Order. Having returned to Italy, he published there anonymously a Tractatus de passione Domini in varias meditationes per Hebdomadam distributus, Venice 1589.
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