PAOLUCCI DI CALBOLI (GIROLAMO DA FORLÌ). - Capuchin preacher, called "the Apostle of the Madonna", b. at Forlì in 1552, entered the Capuchins on 19 March 1591, d. at Parma on 19 March 1620.

He was one of the foremost preachers in Italy, leaving a profound memory especially at Cremona, Parma, Rome, Venice, Bologna, Milan, Modena, Finale, Reggio, Comacchio. He had various mystical gifts, such as that of ecstasy and of prophecy. The Madonna appeared to him several times, instructing him in the divine mysteries. Most devoted to the B. Virgin, everywhere he magnified her glories. At Cremona, where a monument was to be erected to him, he instituted the "Congregation of the Madonna del Popolo". He introduced the practice of the solemn coronation of the miraculous images of the Virgin, a rite subsequently reserved to the Vatican Chapter.

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BIBL.: Gabriele da Modigliana, Leggendario cappuccino, III, Faenza 1783, pp. 261-86; Pellegrino da Forlì, L'Apostolo della Madonna, 5th ed., Milan 1884; Donato da S. Giov. in Persiceto, Bibliot. dei FF. MM. Capp. della preu. di Bologna, Budrio 1949, pp. 272-73.

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