OLIMPIO, Francesco, Venerable. - Theatine ascetical writer, b. in Naples on 5 Aug. 1559, d. there on 21 Feb. 1639.

He was distinguished for his holy life, rich in works of charity and of apostolate and marked by divine charisms. He was notable above all in spreading devotion to the Immaculate Conception with the pious practices of "Marian slavery" and the Little Crown of the twelve privileges of Mary. The cause for his beatification has been introduced.

He wrote: Breve esercizio da farsi da quelli li quali vivono sotto il titolo di Schiavi incatenati della Madre di Dio... (Palermo 1627); Coronciua della B. Vergine Maria e modo di proticarla (Naples, no date): translated into Greek and Latin, it was spread among the Orientals by the Theatine missionaries.

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BIBL.: G. Silos, Historiarum Clericar. Regularium, 3 vols., Rome-Palermo 1650-66, I, and especially III, pp. 190-221; id., Venerabiliti tervi Dei Francisci Olympii Vita, Rome 1657; F. Maggio, Sintagmata linguarum orientalium, II, ibid. 1643, pp. 89-96; A. F. Vezzoni, Scrittori dei Chierici Regolari, II, ibid. 1780, pp. 114-15; G. Kaminski, Coronciua dei dodici privilegi di Maria, in Regnum Dei, Collectanea Theatina, 4 (1945), pp. 105-115.

Francesco Andreu

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Olimpio, Francesco, Venerable

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