Blessed John Baptist Spagnuolo
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- Also known as
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Baptista Mantuanus
Baptista Spagnoli
Baptista Spagnolo
Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus
Baptista Spanuoli Mantuanus
Baptistae Mantuani
Battista Spagnoli
Battista Spagnuoli
Giovanni Baptista Mantuanus
Johannes Baptista Mantuanus
Mantuan
Mantuanus
Mantuanus Baptista
- Memorial
- 20 March
- Profile
- Son of Peter Spagnoli, a Spanish nobleman assigned to the court in Mantua.
Studied in Padua where a wild life put him briefly at the mercy of loan sharks, and got him thrown out of his father's house.
Drifted through Venice.
Experienced a conversion.
Carmelite at age 16 at Ferrara.
Elected vicar-general of his congregation six times.
Prior-general of the Carmelites in 1513.
Noted poet, writing over 55,000 lines of Latin verse; has been criticized for excessive use of pagan mythological images in his work, but was referred to as the Good old Mantuan by Shakespeare in Love's Labour Lost.
Eminent representative of Italian Christian Humanism.
- Born
- 17 April 1447 at Mantua, Italy
- Died
- 20 March 1516 at Mantua, Italy of natural causes
- Name Meaning
- God is gracious; gift of God (John)
- Beatified
- 1890
- Additional Information
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Catholic Encyclopedia, by Benedict Zimmerman
Carmelite Proper of the Liturgy of the Hours
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Google Directory
Wikipedia
Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Brunson
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