CANALI, LUIGI da PARMA. - Minister General of the Friars Minor and titular archbishop of Ptolemais, b. at Parma on 9 Feb. 1836, d. there on 22 Apr. 1905. A Franciscan in the province of the Most Holy Redeemer of Bologna in 1852, he was ordained a priest in 1858, taught philosophy and theology from 1860 to 1866, that is, until the suppression of the convents. He then devoted himself to preaching and to the care of the parish of the Most Holy Annunziata of Parma. Once the religious province was reconstituted, he was its first provincial minister from 1882 to 1889, and at the General Chapter, held in Rome on 3 Oct. 1889, he was elected Minister General of the Order. He inaugurated the college of St. Anthony of Rome (1890) and visited many provinces and even the Holy Land, but he acquired his greatest merit in preparing the union of the various families of his Order, proclaimed and sanctioned by Leo XIII with the bull Felicitate quadam of 4 Oct. 1897. He then retired to his Province, which again elected him minister in 1900. The following year he was elevated to the archiepiscopal dignity and shortly afterward, on 14 Sept. of the same year, his appointment to the see of Reggio Emilia was officially communicated to him from Rome, which he immediately declined because he was in frail health and advanced in age. In 1904 he was again apostolic visitor of the dioceses of Milan, Como and Lodi. His noble character, his affability, and his prudence in governance had won him the esteem of all. Besides various discourses on studies, the Immaculate Conception, St. Bonaventure, etc., and the official encyclicals, he published a Vita del b. Giovanni da Parma (Quaracchi 1900); Da Roma a Gerusalemme (Vanves near Paris 1894; French trans., ibid. 1894).

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BIBL.: A. Molini, Sulla tomba di mons. L. C., Rome 1905; C. Albasini, Per l'inaugurazione del monumento a mons. L. C., Parma 1906; Anon., Reminiscenze e documenti intorno alla vita di mons. L. C., ibid. 1907 (with autobiographical notes); G. Picconi, Serie cronologico-biografica dei Ministri e Vicari Provinciali della Minorità Provincia di Bologna, ibid. 1908, pp. 341-46, 333 ff.

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