MAREOTTI, TREBAZIO. - Theologian, popular apostle, of the Conventual Friars Minor, b. in the first half of the 16th century at Penna S. Giovanni (Marche), d. at Assisi on 3 Aug., not 1 Aug., nor 28 Dec., 1599.
His true surname was often presented in erroneous forms (Mariotti, Marecoccio, Macrotti, etc.). A controversialist and master of theology, he was first a lecturer at Camerino, then a bachelor in the Studium of Padua (ca. 1577), regent at Cremona (1582) and at Milan (ca. 1584-86), then commissioner of the new Confraternity of the Cordigeri (1587) and guardian at Turin (1590). There he was greatly esteemed by Charles Emmanuel, who appointed him his "doctor of theology" and court preacher, and further, by letters patent of 29 Jan. 1590, professor of Sacred Scripture in the University of Turin.
In the meantime M., of a most austere life, had crossed Italy barefoot, a popular apostle "of marvellous eloquence and singular doctrine"; twice he was also custos of the sacred convent of Assisi (1584, and 1594-95). Invited as early as 1592 by the archbishops of Avignon and Besançon, with special pontifical authorization of 7 March 1598, M. went to France to erect and propagate the Third Order, and to continue his apostolate. He withdrew to the sacred convent of Assisi the following year, and died there in great fame of sanctity.
Among his writings are to be remembered: Pentalogium peripateticum... in aliquot Averroistas, de forma novissima et hominis specificus... (Padua 1577); Eccellentissimi discorsi... (Turin 1603, posthumous); Discorsi spirituali sopra l'orazione domenicale (ibid. 1590, they are in no. 50).
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