Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. III, 1949 Ecclesiastical hierarchy Patriarchates, archdioceses, dioceses, suppressed dioceses

Civitanova Marche

By Serafino Prete

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CIVITANOVA MARCHE. - The earliest Christian records, like the episcopal see of ancient Cluentum, are not yet entirely clear. To this vicus, probably situated near present-day C., is attributed the Picene martyr St. Maro (BHL, 6064), commemorated on 15 April in the Hieronymian Martyrology, but his Passio does not merit belief (A. Dufourcq, Les Gesta martyrum, III, Paris 1907, p. 271). The episcopal see appears there in the 5th century, as a letter of Pope Gelasius I concerning the election of the bishop of the plebs clientensis shows (Jaffé-Wattenbach, 663); soon, however, it was absorbed by the Church of Fermo. The church of St. Maro, built over his tomb, still remains; the Romanesque building underwent a radical restoration in 1898.

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BIBL.: Lanzoni, pp. 393-95 and 1070; N. Massetani, S. Marone, Civitanova Marche 1898.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III (1949), col. 1764.

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Prete, Serafino. “Civitanova Marche.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1764. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/civitanova-marche.

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Prete, Serafino. “Civitanova Marche.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1764. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/civitanova-marche.

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@incollection{ec3_civitanova_marche,
  author    = {Prete, Serafino},
  title     = {Civitanova Marche},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {III},
  pages     = {1764},
  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/civitanova-marche}
}

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