Also known as:
Italian: Franco da Perugia;
Latin: Franco de Perusia
FRANCO OF PERUGIA. - Dominican missionary who lived between the 13th and 14th centuries. In the years 1292-93 he taught theology (curator sententiarum) in Florence and Naples; then he was conventual lector in Orvieto and Perugia. In 1298 he founded a convent of his Order in the Genoese colony of Caffa (Crimea) for the evangelization of the Kipchak Tatars, into whose language he translated some Latin writings. Around 1303 he was the first to hold the office of vicar general of the Dominican Congregation of the East, known as that of the Pilgrim Friars.
On April 1, 1318, Pope John XXII created him archbishop of the new Latin metropolis of Soldaia in Persia, with 6 Dominican bishops as suffragans. But in 1322 F. renounced the archbishopric, while still retaining the use of the pontificals in Greek and infidel lands. He withdrew to a convent of his Order in the East, where he died in the year 1333. His eulogy is found in the necrology of the convent of St. Dominic in Perugia, to which he belonged.
Bibliography2 worksR. Loenertz, La Société des Frères pérégrinants, I Rome 1937, passim; Monumenta Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum historica, XX. Rome 1941, pp.
BIBL.: R. Loenertz, La Société des Frères pérégrinants, I Rome 1937, passim; Monumenta Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum historica, XX. Rome 1941, pp. 107-12.
Loenertz, Raimondo. “Franco di Perugia.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 1695. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/franco-di-perugia.
MLA
Loenertz, Raimondo. “Franco di Perugia.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1695. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/franco-di-perugia.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec5_franco_di_perugia,
author = {Loenertz, Raimondo},
title = {Franco di Perugia},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
pages = {1695},
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/franco-di-perugia}
}
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