Also known as:
John Angelo Porro;
Latin: Joannes Angelus Porro
PORRO, Giovanni Angelo, Blessed. - Servant of Mary, born in Milan around 1450 to a noble family, died there on 24 Oct. 1506.
At the age of fifteen he entered the Order of the Servants of Mary, and in 1473 he was ordained a priest. He devoted himself for some years to the eremitical life and enjoyed special mystical graces. An upholder of strict observance, he was then repeatedly master of novices in Florence and prior at Montesenario, Chianti and Milan, distinguishing himself by his charity and his apostolic zeal. With his disciples he established the Congregation of the Sons of the New Observance of the Servants of Mary, dependent immediately on the prior general of the Order.
In Milan he was the first to begin the teaching of Christian doctrine to children: "he would stand above the door of his church and go through the streets seeking the children and leading them to school, teaching them Christian doctrine." The cult of the blessed G. A. P. was confirmed by Clement XII (15 July 1737). Feast day 24 Oct.
Bibliography4 worksActa SS. Octobris, X, Paris 1869, pp. 883 ff.; L. Raffaelli, Vita del b. G. A. P., Rome 1906; A. Morini and P. Soulier, Monumenta Ordinis Se
BIBL.: Acta SS. Octobris, X, Paris 1869, pp. 883 ff.; L. Raffaelli, Vita del b. G. A. P., Rome 1906; A. Morini and P. Soulier, Monumenta Ordinis Servarum Sanctae Mariae, VIII, Brussels 1906, pp. 121-212; IX, ibid. 1907, pp. 5-220.
Sannazzaro, Piero. “Porro, giovanni angelo, beato.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 1774. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/porro-giovanni-angelo-beato.
MLA
Sannazzaro, Piero. “Porro, giovanni angelo, beato.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1774. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/porro-giovanni-angelo-beato.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec9_porro_giovanni_angelo_beato,
author = {Sannazzaro, Piero},
title = {Porro, giovanni angelo, beato},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IX},
pages = {1774},
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/porro-giovanni-angelo-beato}
}
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