BERNARDO (EMILIANI) da PESARO. - Capuchin preacher, b. at Pesaro around 1626, d. there on 22 April 1706. He took the Capuchin habit on 16 December 1646, then held with praise within the Order the offices of guardian and commissary general of the province of Nice.

He preached with acclaim in the major Italian cities. Domenico Lazzarini composed an Elegy in his praise (Opere, Venetian ed., p. 366). He published: l'Innocenza trionfante, panegyric of St. Geminianus (Modena, 1667-71); La meta sublime dei pubblici sguardi, discourse delivered in the hall of the Senate of Lucca (Lucca 1686); La vigilanza cristiana tesoriera dell'eternità (Rome 1695), a work of notable ascetic value. The entire treatise revolves around the words Vigilate, omni tempore orantes; it demonstrates that, since the forgetting of God is the cause of all moral evils, keeping the eyes of the spirit constantly open to the inspirations of grace and to supernatural realities is the most effective remedy. Perfection consists in being absorbed in God.

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BIBL.: Dionisio da Genova, Bibl. script. ord. min. cap., Genoa 1691, p. 63; Bernardo da Bologna, Bibl. script. ord. min. cap., Venice 1747, p. 48; Bibl. picena ossia Notizia storiche delle opere e delli scritti piceni, IV, Osimo 1795, pp. 31-32; Giuseppe da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini delle Marche e le loro opere edite ed inedite, Jesi 1928, pp. 20-21.

Umile Bonzi da Genova

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