COSTANTINO da LORO PICENO. – Capuchin (in the world Lorenzo Mocchi), b. at Ascoli Piceno in 1770. He was a missionary in Tibet, whence in 1742 he sent an account of the mission (published in Analecta Ord. Min. Capucc., 18 [1902], pp. 338–49); then in Nepal (1744), whence in 1747 he dispatched the interesting Notizie laconiche di alcuni usi, sacrificij et idoli nel regno del Nepal (manuscript held by Propaganda Fide), with colored illustrations drawn by a Nepalese master. In 1749 he returned to his homeland.
BIBL.: Paolino di S. Bartolomeo, India orientalis Christiana, Rome 1794, p. 164; Analecta Ord. Min. Capuccinorum, 18 (1902), pp. 337–49; Annales franciscaines, 44 (1905), pp. 35–41, 86–89, 174–81, 232–36 (French translation of the account mentioned above); Giuseppe da Fermo, Gli scrittori cappuccini delle Marche, Jesi 1928, pp. 27–28; Clemente da Terzorio, Le missioni dei Minori cappuccini, VIII, Rome 1932, pp. 361, 411; IX, Rome 1935, pp. 10, 50. Ilarino da Milano