PAOLO (MANASSEI) da TERNI. - Capuchin, preacher, missionary in Rhaetia, spiritual writer, b. 21 Feb. 1587, d. in the province of Brescia in May 1620.

He preached in his homeland, then in Rhaetia, from where, worn out by labors and penances, he withdrew to the province of Brescia.

At the urging of the celebrated apostolic preacher Father Girolamo da Narni he wrote: Paradiso interiore, ovvero corona spirituale nella quale con trentatré esercizi si praticano tutte le virtù per arrivare alla perfezione (Bergamo 1631, 1684), which went through repeated editions; but, suspected of quietism, it was placed on the Index (decree of 26 Apr. 1689).

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BIBL.: Bernardus a Bononia, Bibl. Script. Cap., Venice 1747, p. 205; V. Bonari, I conventi e i Cappuccini bresciani, Milan 1891, p. 247; Sbaralea, II, pp. 312-13, n. 3072; Francesco da Vicenza, Gli scrittori cappuccini della prov. serafica, Foligno 1922, pp. 69-74; Melchior a Pobladura, Hist. gen Ord. FF. MM. Cap., part 2, I, Rome 1948, pp. 264-65; M. Petrocchi, Il quietismo italiano del Seicento, ibid. 1948, see index.

Felice da Mareto

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