Antonio of Vicenza (1 March 1834 – 22 June 1884) born in

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, died in

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, was a Reformed

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. After his ordination in 1856, he devoted himself to the study of scholastic authors, especially of St. Bonaventure whose ''Breviloquium'' he published in a new edition (Venice, 1874; Freiburg, 1881). He also edited the ''Lexicon Bonaventurianum,'' (Venice, 1880), in which the terminology of the

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is explained. His contributions to hagiography include nineteen studies of the lives of the saints of the Franciscan Order.

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Maria Antonia of Vicenza
at Catholic Encyclopedia 1834 births 1884 deaths Conventual Friars Minor {{RC-bio-stub