Stefano Bellesini
Stefano Bellesini OESA (born November 25, 1774 in Trento , † February 2, 1840 in Genazzano ) was an Italian Catholic priest , member of the Augustinian Hermits (OESA) and was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1904 .
Life
Luigi Bellesini entered the Augustinian order in Bologna as a novice on May 29, 1793 and took the religious name Stefano. He made his profession on May 31, 1794. In the fall of 1794 he moved to Rome to study philosophy at the Augustinian monastery there. In 1796 - during the coalition war - he studied theology in Bologna. Since the Napoleonic troops closed the monastery, Bellesini continued his theology studies in Trento from autumn 1796. There he was on 29 October 1797 for a deacon ordained and received on 5 November 1797, the priestly ordination . Because of his youth, he needed a papal dispensation for this . He stayed with the Augustinians in Trento.
After the dissolution of his monastery in 1809 in the course of secularization , he began extensive educational activities in Trento, especially for poor children and young people, and founded a school. Eventually he became responsible for thousands of students. He won the trust of the new authorities and in 1811 was appointed General School Director of the Principality of Trento by the Austrian government. In the course of the re-establishment of the Papal States in 1815 and the approval of the orders there, he moved back to the Augustinians in Rome in 1817, despite the resistance of the government of Trentino, whereupon he was exiled, and became master of novices there . From 1826 he was novice master in the Augustinian monastery in Genazzano (Latium). In 1831 he became pastor there and decisively promoted the pilgrimage to the Mother of the Good Council of Genazzano and popular piety to her. Today he is primarily associated with this sanctuary. He died in Genazzano in 1840.
Stefano Bellesini was beatified on December 27, 1904 by Pope Pius X as the first pastor of modern times - one year before Jean-Marie Vianney , the pastor of Ars. Immediately after his beatification, an initiative arose asking him to be named patron of the pastors. Bellesini is the first blessed from Trentino .
His feast day in the liturgy is February 2nd, for the Augustinian hermits it is February 3rd.
literature
- Ekkart Sauser : BELLESINI, Stephan: Augustinian ceremony. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 96.
- Amadeo Erano: Da Napoleone a Leone XIII: Documenti Storici sul Santuario di Genazzano . Edizioni Madre del Buon Consiglio, Genazzano 2010 (This documentation contains the diary of S. Bellesini found in 2004)
- Attilio Borzi: Un Uomo per Gli Altri - B. Stefano Bellesini , Genazzano 1973.
- D. Riccardi: Un santo fra i poveri e ragazzi. Vita del Beato Stefano Bellesini , Milan 1970 (Ancora)
Web links
- Stefano Bellesini in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
- Biography in "Santi e Beati" (Italian)
- Short biography with photos (Italian)
- Extensive biography (Italian)
swell
- ↑ Biographical data from Attilio Borzi: Un Uomo per Gli Altri - B. Stefano Bellesini , Genazzano 1973.
- ^ Bishop Pietro Severi in the introduction by Attilio Borzi: Un Uomo per Gli Altri - B. Stefano Bellesini , Genazzano 1973, p. 7
- ↑ Amadeo Erano: Da Napoleone a Leone XIII: Documenti Storici sul Santuario di Genazzano . Edizioni Madre del Buon Consiglio, Genazzano 2010, p. 174.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bellesini, Stefano |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bellesini, Stefan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian religious, Augustinian hermit, blessed |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1774 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trent |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1840 |
| Place of death | Genazzano |