PRECONIO, OTTAVIANO. - Conventual Franciscan theologian, b. at Castroreale (Messina) around the end of the 15th century, d. at Palermo on 18 July 1568.
A master of theology and a distinguished preacher, he was provincial minister of Sicily (1534-38; 1542-43), general visitor of Aragon and of other provinces beyond the mountains, bishop of Monopoli (from 16 April 1546), then of Ariano (13 June 1561) and according to some also of Cefalù; archbishop of Palermo from 18 March 1562. He was also counsellor, preacher and confessor of Charles V, and orator of Philip II at the Council of Trent in the 3rd period, distinguishing himself by his «vota» de Indice, de usu Eucharistiae, de Residentia, de concessione Calicis, de Ordine. At Palermo he held (1565) a reform synod, whose acts were published in that year.
Among his other writings are to be remembered: Summa de Sacramentis (Palermo 1565); Praeconium Sacramenti hoc est dispositio et praeparatio ad altissimum Eucharistiae Sacramentum (ibid. - Naples 1566); Expositio responsorii Libera me Domine de morte aeterna (ibid. 1566); Expositio perlucida in orationem illam obscuram seu offertorium mysteriorum: Domine Jesu Christe rex gloriae (Naples 1570).
Bibliography7 worksWadding, Scriptores, pp. 180-81; Sbaralea, II, p. 292; Eubel, III, pp. 131, 265, 266; Concilium Tridentinum, Diaria e Acta, II, III, VIII, I
BIBL.: Wadding, Scriptores, pp. 180-81; Sbaralea, II, p. 292; Eubel, III, pp. 131, 265, 266; Concilium Tridentinum, Diaria e Acta, II, III, VIII, IX, XI, passim; D. Sparacio, Siciliensis Praeinciæ O.F.M. Conv. conspectus historicus, Rome 1925, pp. 48-49; A. Testaert, s. v. in DThC, XI, coll. 928-29; G. Odoardi I Francesconi Min. Conventuali al Concilio di Trento, in Misc. Franc., 47 (1947), pp. 347-49, 360-62.
Odoardi, Giovanni. “Preconio, ottaviano.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 1906. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/preconio-ottaviano.
MLA
Odoardi, Giovanni. “Preconio, ottaviano.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1906. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/preconio-ottaviano.
BibTeX
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author = {Odoardi, Giovanni},
title = {Preconio, ottaviano},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IX},
pages = {1906},
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/preconio-ottaviano}
}
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