Blessed Antonio Rosmini-Serbati
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- Memorial
- 1 July
- Profile
- Educated at home, and then three years at the University of Padua, Italy.
Ordained on 21 April 1821 at Chioggia, Italy.
Received his Doctorate of Canon Law and Theology in 1822.
Began work in Rome in 1823, studying philosphy for the next three years, especially the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
He taught that the human mind is endowed with an innate cognition, the single conception of ideal being, a mental form, a condition of knowledge and the light of reason.
Founded the Institute of Charity (Rosminians) and Rosminian Sisters of Providence in 1828, which by 1835 was conducting missions in Italy and England; the congregation is devoted to edicuation and charity.
His ontology and natural theology and his Trattato della Coscienza on 1839 were severely criticized; forty of his propositions were eventually condemned by the Congregation of the Inquisition in 1887.
Appointed by Blessed Pope Pius IX as one of the consultors to deliberate on the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.
- Born
- 24 March 1797 in Rovereto, Austrian Tyrol (modern Trent, Italy)
- Died
- 1 July 1855 in Stresa, Viterbo, Italy of natural causes;
interred in the Church of the Santissimo Crocifisso built by him at Stresa
- Venerated
- 26 June 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI
- Beatified
- 18 November 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI
- Canonized
- pending;
if you have information relevant to the canonization of Blessed Antonio, contact:
Istituto della Carità - Rosminiani
Via della Traspontina, 18
00193 Roma, ITALY
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Suore Rosminiane della Provvidenza
Via Aurelia, 773
00165 Roma, ITALY
- Additional Information
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New Catholic Dictionary
Acton Institute
Catholic Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
His Story, by Umberto Muratore
Kirken i Norge - norwegian
The Philosophical System of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati
Rosmini in English
Rosminians
- Works
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- Cinque piaghe della chiesa (1848)
- Costituzione secondo la giustizia sociale (1848)
- Dell' Educazione Cristiana
- Maxims of Christian Perfection
- Nuovo saggio sull' origine delle idee (Origin of Ideas)
- Trattato della coscienza morale (1839)
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