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Oliva, Alessandro

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Also known as: Cardinal of St. Susanna

OLIVA, ALESSANDRO - Tomb of Card. O. (2nd half of the 15th century) - Rome, church of S. Agostino, passage to the sacristy.

OLIVA, ALESSANDRO. - Cardinal, b. at Sassoferrato in 1407, d. at Rome on 20 or 22 Aug. 1463 in the odor of sanctity. He entered the Hermits of St. Augustine, among whom he held the principal offices up to that of prior general in 1459. He was a peacemaking preacher and an illustrious reformer, for which reason Pius II created him cardinal of St. Susanna on 5 March 1460 and gave him the bishopric of Camerino in commendam on 16 Nov. 1461. He left collections of sermons, ascetic treatises and letters that remained unpublished.

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BIBL.: M. Morici, Il card. A. O., predicatore quattrocentista, Florence 1899; Pastor, II, p. 195 ff.; G. Galletti, L'eloquenza dalle origini al XVI sec., Milan n.d., pp. 288-89 and 617; R. Elia, Una missione pacificatrice del card. A. O. nelle Marche, in Studia picena, 17 (1942), pp. 17-22.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX (1952), col. 99.

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Paschini, Pio. “Oliva, alessandro.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 99. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/oliva-alessandro.

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Paschini, Pio. “Oliva, alessandro.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 99. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/oliva-alessandro.

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  author    = {Paschini, Pio},
  title     = {Oliva, alessandro},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IX},
  pages     = {99},
  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/oliva-alessandro}
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