MARINONI, GIOVANNI, Blessed
Francesco Maria Marinoni was born in Venice in 1490 to a Bergamasque family and died in Naples on 13 December 1562. He was one of the first disciples of St. Cajetan of Thiene, from whom he received the habit of the Theatines in Venice in 1529, having already been a priest and canon of St. Mark’s.
In 1533, he moved with the founder to Naples to establish a Theatine community, and in that city he carried out a manifold apostolate, working especially for the conversion of Valdesian and crypto-Lutheran circles. A faithful interpreter of the Theatine spirit, he declined the archbishopric of Naples (1555) and served as spiritual director to St. Andrew Avellino and Bl. Paul Burali. The popular cult rendered to Bl. Marinoni was recognized by Innocent XIII on 11 September 1762.
MARINONI, GIOVANNI FRANCESCO
A Barnabite writer of ascetical works, born at Clusone (Bergamo) on 30 June 1678, died in Milan on 27 February 1761. A religious of outstanding virtue, he composed several ascetical booklets rich in doctrine, which were reprinted many times.
Among these are to be noted: *Distribuzione del tempo* (on the use of time during spiritual exercises among the Barnabites; Milan 1766); *Speculum asceticum* (ibid. 1719), which contains a first part of *Sacra monita drawn from the Fathers and Holy Scripture* arranged in tabular form, and a second part of *Alimenta mentis et cordis*, devout aspirations, prayers and
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MARINONI, GIUSEPPE
First superior of what is now the Pontifical Institute of the SS. Peter and Paul and SS. Ambrose and Charles for Foreign Missions, born in Milan on 11 October 1810, died there on 27 September 1891. Ordained priest in 1834, after a few years of teaching in diocesan seminaries he went to Rome, where he became a disciple of Bl. PALLOTTA, ANTONIO (v.), then his vicar and later parish priest at S. Michele a Ripa. Recalled to his diocese to direct the newly founded Institute of Foreign Missions, he served as its superior—intelligent and much beloved—until his death.
In 1864 he founded *L’Osservatore Cattolico*, bringing in Enrico Massara and Davide Albertario as editors, and showed himself a staunch defender of the papal cause, though free from the partisanship that later marked the paper; he withdrew from it in 1872, when, together with Giacomo Scurati, he founded *Le Missioni Cattoliche*. He never ceased, however, from assisting *L’Osservatore*, even by express mandate from Rome.
Much beloved by Pius IX and by the entire Lombard episcopate, who often availed themselves of his help in drafting collective pastorals, he was revered and listened to by cardinals and bishops. Adviser to Ausonio Franchi at the time of his return to the Church, and to many other straying priests sent to him by their respective bishops, he was an eminent educator and father of missionaries and a distinguished ecclesiastical writer. He left a copious correspondence, full of doctrine, wisdom and balance. His death was mourned as that of a saint.
MARIN-SOLA, FRANCISCO
A Dominican theologian, born at Carcar (Spain) on 22 November 1873, died at Manila on 5 June 1932. He landed in the Philippines on 17 July 1897 and was ordained priest on 18 September following. He then served as a missionary in the north of Luzon Island, where he was held prisoner for sixteen months by the insurgents. Returning to Manila at the beginning of 1900, he began teaching at the College of St. John Lateran. Owing to poor health he frequently changed residence; in 1906 he taught at Avila, shortly afterward again in the Philippines (University of St. Thomas), then in the United States, and from 1918 to 1927 at Fribourg.