CREMISINI, ANTONIO. – Ascetical writer, born at Poggio Nativo (Rieti) on 13 June 1792, died in Rome on 27 October 1875. He entered the Congregation of the Mission in Rome in 1809. He taught theology, was superior of the Alberoni College in Piacenza, and later provincial visitor of Rome.
He wrote various ascetical works, predominantly Marian in character, including: Il divoto di Maria (Turin 1855); Le trenta figure di Maria e i trenta principali suoi divoti dei primi secoli della Chiesa (there 1857); Il perfetto mese mariano (Piacenza 1857); Il tesoro dei divoti di Maria (there 1857); as well as lives of s. Giuseppe, s. Anna, s. Gioacchino, etc.
BIBL.: Notices bibliographiques sur les écrivains de la Congrégation de la Mission, Angoulême 1878, pp. 84–89. Annibale Bugnini