Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. IV, 1950 Saints & hagiography

With The Delight Of Superiors

CON L'ELIZIA DE' SUPERIORI

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WITH THE ELYSIUM OF THE SUPERIORS.

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CRESCIMBENI, GIAN MARIO - Frontispiece of L'istoria della Basilica diaconale... di S. Maria in Cosmedin, Rome 1715 - Rome, copy in the National Library.

several districts with tenacious zeal, forming sincere and well-prepared Christians. In 1900 he was entrusted with a vast mountainous district, inhabited by a semi-savage population. When famine raged, through his charity he succeeded in bringing about a consoling movement of conversions. When the Boxer Revolution (v.) broke out, he was captured by them and on 21 July 1911 tortured and beheaded in the village of Yentzepien. In 1918 the process on his martyrdom was begun; his beatification is near.

Bibliography

BIBL.: G. Mencaulia, Il servo di Dio p. A. C., martire della Cina, Milan 1930.

Raffaele Trotta

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By Raffaele Trotta

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), col. 852.

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Trotta, Raffaele. “Con L'Elizia de' Superiori.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 852. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/con-l-elizia-de-superiori.

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Trotta, Raffaele. “Con L'Elizia de' Superiori.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 852. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/con-l-elizia-de-superiori.

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  author    = {Trotta, Raffaele},
  title     = {Con L'Elizia de' Superiori},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IV},
  pages     = {852},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/con-l-elizia-de-superiori}
}

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