EMANUELE OF JESUS MARY. - Discalced Carmelite theologian and preacher, in the world Michele d'Ambrogio, b. in Saponara-Villafranca (Messina) on 1 Nov. 1621, d. in Naples on 17 Sept. 1692.

An excellent orator, he preached with great acclaim in the great cities of Italy and at the court of Emperor Leopold I in Vienna. Cardinal Antonio Pignatelli called him "tuba Spiritus Sancti". He also held the highest dignities of his Order: he was provincial of Naples and of Sicily, three times definitor general and general of the Order (1677-80).

He published the works: Frutti del Carmelo, discorsi morali (4 vols., Rome-Naples 1667-73); Myrrha, thus et aurum (Naples 1677); Le finezze dell'amore di Gesù (ibid. 1601 and 1713); Istoria panegirica di s. Gioachino (ibid. 1692); Fiori del Carmelo (Vienna 1666, Naples 1690, 1711); L'Innomo del cielo (Ancona 1688); Il regno di Maria Vergine, madre di Dio (Naples 1680); Alphabetum Marianum (ibid. 1691).

Bibliography3 works

BIBL.: Eusebius ab omnibus sanctis. Euchirition... Carm. disc., Rome 1717, pp. 379-84; C. de Villiers, Bibl. Carm., I, ibid. 1927, p. 443; Necrologium, ms. in Archivio generale 100.

Ambrogio di Santa Teresa

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Emanuele of Jesus Mary

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