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ANTONINUS, SAINT ANTONIO PIEROZZI

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 148 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTONINUS, See also:SAINT See also:ANTONIO PIEROZZI , also called DE FORCIGLIONI] (1389-1459), See also:archbishop of See also:Florence, was See also:born at that See also:city on the 1st of See also:March 1389. He entered the Dominican See also:order in his 16th See also:year, and was soon entrusted, in spite of his youth, with the See also:government of various houses of his order at See also:Cortona, See also:Rome, See also:Naples and Florence, which he laboured zealously to reform. He was consecrated archbishop of Florence in 1446, and won the esteem and love of his See also:people, especially by his See also:energy and resource in combating the effects of the See also:plague and See also:earthquake in 1448 and 1453• He died on the 2nd of May 1459, and was canonized by See also:Pope See also:Adrian VI. in 1523. His feast is annually celebrated on the 13th of May. Antoninus had a See also:great reputation for theological learning, and, sat as papal theologian at the See also:council of Florence (1439). Of his various See also:works, the See also:list of which is given in Quetif-Echard, De Scriptoribus Ord. Praedicat., i. 818, the best-known are his Summa theologica (See also:Venice, 1477; See also:Verona, 1740) and the Summa confessionalis (See also:Mondovi, 1472), invaluable to confessors. See Bolland, Acta Sanctorum, i., and U. See also:Chevalier, See also:Rep. See also:des. s.hist. (1905), pp. 285-286.

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