Antonius Baldinucci

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P. Antonius Baldinucci, portrait in Francesco Galluzzi : Vita del P. Antonio Baldinucci della Compagnia di Giesù, missionario , Rome 1720

Antonius Baldinucci SJ (born June 19, 1665 in Florence , † November 17, 1717 in Pofi , province of Frosinone) was an Italian missionary .

Career

He was the youngest son of the Florentine art historian Filippo Baldinucci . In adolescence he was portrayed by Baldassare Franceschini . In 1681 he entered the Society of Jesus in Rome . It was his great desire to be sent to the Gentile mission and to achieve martyrdom . Because of his poor health, however, he was appointed to the popular mission in the dioceses around Frascati and Viterbo . There he achieved lasting success in 448 missions. His beatification took place in 1893. According to the beatification files, several witnesses reported that Baldinucci had the ability to recognize sins that the penitent did not pronounce or had almost forgotten himself.

Web links

Commons : Antonio Baldinucci  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ digitized version
  2. ↑ Baldinucci's youth portrait by Baldassare Franceschini called Volterrano
  3. ^ From the "Positio super virtutibus" Romae, Paragraph 476-483. Wilhelm Schamoni and Karl Besler: Charismatic saints - special gifts of grace from saints according to testimony from acts of healing. Christiana-Verlag, Stein am Rhein 1989, ISBN 3-7171-0921-9 , p. 58
  4. ^ Wilhelm Schamoni and Karl Besler: Charismatic saints - special gifts of grace from saints according to testimony from canonization acts . Christiana-Verlag, Stein am Rhein 1989, ISBN 3-7171-0921-9 , p. 58 ff .
personal data
SURNAME Baldinucci, Antonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian missionary
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1717
Place of death Pofi , Frosinone Province