NEVOLONE (Novellone) da Faenza, Blessed. - A shoemaker, who turned from a pleasure-seeker into a penitent, a Franciscan tertiary, a pilgrim, and then a hermit near the Camaldolese of Faenza, where he died on 27 July 1280. At his death the people of Faenza carried his body in a crowd and solemnly to the Cathedral, where they had him buried in the presence of the city's magistrates.
He was venerated as blessed; certainly before 1331, as appears from well-known documents of Faenza. Pius VII confirmed his cult on 4 June 1817. In the cathedral of Faenza a chapel of particular artistic value is dedicated to N. He is venerated on 27 July. The most reliable information about N. is given by the chronicler P. Cantinelli (Chronicon, Città di Castello 1902); an anonymous life written between 1415 and 1475 is of little value. Of some interest as a document in the vernacular, composed in Faenza perhaps before 1426, and as a biographical document, is the Lauda beati Noveloni de Favencia, where mention is made of the travels and pilgrimages of N. in Apulia and Campania.
Bibliography6 worksActa SS. Iulii, VI, Paris 1868, pp. 497-99; G. B. Mitterelli and A. Costadoni, Annales Camald., V, Venice 1760, pp. 111, 141-43; F. Lanzoni,
BIBL.: Acta SS. Iulii, VI, Paris 1868, pp. 497-99; G. B. Mitterelli and A. Costadoni, Annales Camald., V, Venice 1760, pp. 111, 141-43; F. Lanzoni, I primordi dell'Ordine francescano in Faenza, ibid. 1910, pp. 31-32; id., Una vita del b. N., in Archivum Franciscanum historicum, 6 (1913), pp. 632-53; id., Il b. N., in Boll. dioc. di Faenza, 8 (1921), pp. 77-78 and 109-11; G. B. Tasselli, S. N., ibid., 10 (1923), pp. 94-95.
Gaspari, Mario Pio. “Nevolone (Novellone) da Faenza, beato.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, col. 1796. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/nevolone-novellone-da-faenza-beato.
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Gaspari, Mario Pio. “Nevolone (Novellone) da Faenza, beato.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1796. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/nevolone-novellone-da-faenza-beato.
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@incollection{ec8_nevolone_novellone_da_faenza_b,
author = {Gaspari, Mario Pio},
title = {Nevolone (Novellone) da Faenza, beato},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VIII},
pages = {1796},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1952},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/nevolone-novellone-da-faenza-beato}
}
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