Blessed Augustine Novello
![[Blessed Augustine Novello]](sainta97.jpg "19kb jpg detail from the 'Blessed Agostino Novello Altarpiece' by Simone Martini, 1324, tempera on wood, 198 x 257 cm, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Also known as
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Agostino Novello
Augustine Novellus
Matthew of Taormina
Matteo de' Termini
- Memorial
- 19 May
- Profile
- Graduated a Doctor of law in Bologna, and stayed to teach.
Held assorted offices in civil government.
Chancellor to King Manfred of Sicily.
Soldier.
Badly injured and left for dead on the battlefield at Benevento, Italy during Manfred's war with Charles of Anjou.
When recovered, he became a lay brother with the Augustinian friars, taking the name Augustine Novello.
He was content to remain in that position, but when his superiors discovered his education and experience, they ordered him ordained a bishop.
He helped draft new constitutions for the Order, and was made prior-general.
Papal confessor and papal legate.
In 1300 he retired from the world to live as a hermit near Siena, Italy.
- Born
- at Taormina, Sicily as Matthew of Taormina
- Died
- 1309 at San Leonardo, Italy of natural causes
- Beatified
- 1759 (cultus confirmed)
- Representation
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monk holding an icon of the Holy Face
bishop holding an icon of the Holy Face
Augustinian friar with a book listening to the whisperings of an angel
performing miracles
cake topped with a paper angel
- Additional Information
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Catholic Encyclopedia, by Tirso Lopez
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Google Directory
New Catholic Dictionary
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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