MAGGI, SEBASTIANO, beato. - Dominican, b. at Brescia in 1414, d. at Genoa in Nov. 1496. A religious in his homeland in 1430, he was prior in many convents (Bologna, Mantua, Milan, Brescia, Cremona, Vicenza) and twice vicar general of the reformed Congregation of Lombardy (1480-81, 1495-96); he founded in Milan the convent of "La Rosa," now demolished.

An effective preacher, a prudent counselor, a rigid observer of the Rule, he devoted himself with zeal to the restoration of monastic discipline. He was a friend and confessor of G. Savonarola. His incorrupt body is venerated in S. Maria di Castello at Genoa. His cult was approved by Clement XIII (15 Apr. 1760). Feast on 16 Dec.

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BIBL.: G.B.M.C., Notizie spettanti alla vita del b. S. M., Brescia 1764; T. Ghilardi, Vita del b. S. M., Genoa 1844; A. Mortier, Histoire des maîtres généraux de l'Ordre des Pères Prêcheurs, IV, Paris 1908, passim; Année dominicaine, new ed., I, Lyon 1909, pp. 389-400; I. Taurisano, Catalogus hagiographicus O. P., Rome 1918, p. 48; A. D'Amato, Friends dell'osservanza regolare nella Congregazione dom. di Lombardia negli anni 1469-72, in Archivum Fratrum Praed., 15 (1945), pp. 60, 90, 96, 100. Alfonso D'Amato-Abele Redigonda

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