Cuniliat, Fulgenzio - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. IV, p. 625

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

CUNILIAT, FULGENZIO. - Dominican theologian and writer, b. in Venezia (of a French father from Lione) on 22 Feb. 1685, d. there on 9 Oct. 1759. He entered religious life at Conegliano in 1700 and taught philosophy and theology for many years. He was vicar general of the reformed Congregation of b. Giacomo Salomoni (1737-1739). A friend of Apostolo Zeno.

An exemplary religious, a sought-after spiritual director,

he wrote: Meditazioni per tutto l'anno accomodate agli evangeli etc. (4 vols., Venezia 1733); Meditazioni per tutto l'anno sulle feste, virtù e prerogative della S.ma Vergine Madre di Dio etc. (4 vols., ibid. 1734); Nuovo leggendario de santi, a modo di meditazioni etc. (6 vols., ibid. 1738); Bibliotheca eucaristica (2 vols., ibid. 1744); Universae theologiae moralis accurata complexio (2 vols., ibid. 1754; ibid. 1760, 1772, 1789 etc.), and other works of a historical and ascetical character.

BIBL.: Z. Castagna, Necrologio del p. F. C., Bologna, archive of the convent of S. Domenico, Necrologi, VII, no. 48; Jo. F. B. de Rubeis, De rebus Congregationis sub titulo B. Jacobi Salomonii, Venezia 1751, pp. 463, 479-80.
Alfonso D'Amato