MARIO da MERCATO SARACENO. - The first Capuchin historiographer, born in 1512-13 to the noble Fabiani family, died at Tolentino in 1581. From the Hermits of St. Augustine he passed to the Capuchins in 1539-40; three times provincial, of Bologna (1555, 1561) and of the Marches (1556-59); four times definitor general, twice minister general (1567-73).

At the initiative of Cosimo I de' Medici he wrote the Relationes de origine Ordinis Fr. Min. Cappuccinorum, (ed. Melchior a Pobladura, Assisi 1937); he then wrote some Poemetti; he was also a valiant orator: a Lenten sermon cycle of his is still preserved unpublished in the Biblioteca Estense in Modena (v. L. 12.11).

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BIBL.: Melchior a Pobladura, De vita et scriptis p. Marii Fabiani a Foro Sarsinio, in Collectanea Franciscana, 6 (1936), pp. 352-94; id., Poemetti del p. M. Fabiani generale del Cappuccini, in L'Italia franciscana, 12 (1937), pp. 315-25, 409-14; 13 (1938), pp. 27-32, 418-23; id., Historia generalis Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Cappuccinorum, parte 1ª, Roma 1947, pp. 59-61, 237 sg.; N. Mancini, Un poemetto mariano del p. M. Fabiani?, in L'Italia franciscana, 9 (1934), pp. 195-208; T. Graf, Zur Entstehung des Kapazinerordens. Quellenkritische Studien, Olten 1940.

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