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Carlo Maria Bascapè
Carlo Maria Bascapè (; born Giovanni Francesco Bascapè, 25 October 1550 – 6 October 1615) was an Italian people, Italian Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic prelate and scholar who served as Bishop of Novara from 1593 until his death. He was a close friend of Saint Charles Borromeo and assumed the first half of his religious name in honor of him. Bascapè became titled as Venerable on 19 December 2005 - on the road to possible sainthood - after Pope Benedict XVI confirmed his heroic virtue. Life Carlo Bascapè was born in Melegnano, Milan, on 25 October 1550 to the nobles Angelo Bascapè and Isabella Giussani. At baptism he was named Giovanni Francesco. Bascapè studied humanities and classical languages under Marcantonio Maioragio, Milan's leading humanist and teacher of rhetoric. He moved to Pavia in 1568 for his studies at the University of Pavia, college there in law and he graduated with a doctorate in both civil and canon law in 1574. In Pavia he joined the new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnabites
The Barnabites (), officially named as the Clerics Regular of Saint Paul (), are a religious order of clerics regular founded in 1530 in the Catholic Church. They are associated with the Angelic Sisters of Saint Paul and the members of the Barnabite lay movement. Establishment of the Order Second in seniority of the orders of regular clerics (the Theatines being first), the Barnabites were founded in Milan, by Anthony Mary Zaccaria, Barthélemy Ferrari, and Jacopo Antonio Morigia. The region was then suffering severely from the wars between Charles V and Francis I, and Zaccaria saw the need for radical reform of the Church in Lombardy, afflicted by problems typical for that era: dioceses without a bishop, clergy with inadequate theological training, a decrease in religious practice, and monasteries and convents in decline. It was approved by Pope Clement VII in the brief ''Vota per quae vos'' on 18 February 1533. Later approvals gave it the status of a Religious Order, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |