Blessed Juvenal Ancina
- Also known as
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Giovenale Ancina
Giovanni Giovenale Ancina
- Memorial
- 12 September
- Profile
- Born to a wealthy and politicially connected family.
Educated in medicine and philosophy.
Noted scholar, musician, composer, music editor, and orator.
Professor of medicine at the University of Turin.
Private physician to the ambassador from Savoy to Rome in 1575.
There he met Saint Philip Neri and decided to follow his call to the priesthood.
Worked with Saint Philip at the Congrecation of the Oratory in Naples, Italy.
Introduced the use of the written catechism to Saluzzo, Italy, and brought a re-birth of faith and good works in that city.
Bishop of Saluzzo in 1596.
Reportedly poisoned by a monk that he had chastized.
- Born
- 19 October 1545 at Fossano, Piedmont, Italy
- Died
- murdered on 30 August 1604 in the cathedral at Saluzzo, Italy
- Beatified
- 9 February 1890 by Pope Leo XIII
- Canonized
- pending
- Patronage
- Fossano, Italy
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
Wikipedia
- Works
- Tempio Armonico della Beatissima Vergine, a collection of spiritual songs
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