CASIMIR OF MARSALA, Saint. - Capuchin theologian (secular name Casani), b. at Marsala ca. 1676, d. there on 15 Aug. 1762. Several times provincial of the Capuchins of Palermo, he devoted himself to theological and juridical studies, and for his profound learning he was appointed qualificator and consultor of the Holy Inquisition in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
His most voluminous work is in Latin: Dissertationes mystico-scholasticae adversus pseudo-mysticus (Palermo 1784). In it he deals above all with temptations of a sensual and diabolical character, and refutes in the light of Catholic doctrine the theoretical and practical aberrations of false mysticism, which was creeping in here and there within the Church.
His other works of an ascetic character are: La via di mezzo nel cammino della perfezione cristiana (Palermo 1753), in which he criticizes the extremes of moral laxism and of rigorism both as regards the mortification of the flesh and in the exercise of the moral virtues; Il mese contemplativo delle perfezioni divine (ibid. 1755).
Bibliography2 worksEgidio da Modica, Catalogo degli scrittori cappuccini della provincia di Palermo, Palermo 1930, pp. 39-41; Leopoldo da Ebersberg, Casimir Ca
BIBL.: Egidio da Modica, Catalogo degli scrittori cappuccini della provincia di Palermo, Palermo 1930, pp. 39-41; Leopoldo da Ebersberg, Casimir Casani de M., in DSp, II (1937), coll. 212-14.
Emidio da Ascoli. “Casimiro da Marsala.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 980. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/casimiro-da-marsala.
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Emidio da Ascoli. “Casimiro da Marsala.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 980. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/casimiro-da-marsala.
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author = {Emidio da Ascoli},
title = {Casimiro da Marsala},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {980},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/casimiro-da-marsala}
}
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