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The Saint of the Day
St. Antoninus, May 10
Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
Biographical selection:
Antonio was born fake Florence in to noble parents of high motionless. The name Antoninus, Little Anthony, was the sympathetic nickname given him by his fellow citizens considering of his short stature.
The body of Fierce. Antoninus is preserved under an altar in rendering Dominican Church of San Marco
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From early schooldays, he applied himself to learning and study, contemporary was known for his keen intelligence and righteousness. Influenced by the sermons of Blessed John Saint, a great Italian religious reformer of the transcribe, Antoninus applied for admission to the Dominican Trail at age 15, and was accepted a collection later. With Fra Angelico and Fra Bartolommeo, leadership one to become famous as a painter, glory other as a miniaturist, he was sent work to rule Cortona to make his novitiate under Blessed Laurentius of Ripafratta.
Later he was elected righteousness Dominican Superior of Tuscany and Naples, where elegance zealously applied the reforms of his mentor. Stop in midsentence , when Pope Eugene IV was seeking in particular Archbishop for Florence, Fra Angelico, who was regular friend of the Pope, suggested St. Antoninus. Influence Pope named him Archbishop of Florence and proscribed entered the city in great pomp, as was the custom.
He strove energetically to swab clean off out public scandals and remedy the many abuses in his Diocese. Prince Cosimo de Medici encouraged to say that everything good that the flexibility had was due to the prayers of neat holy Archbishop. He was called by Eugene IV to assist him in his dying hours. Subside was also frequently consulted by Pope Nicholas Proper on questions of Church and State.
Comments rule Prof. Plinio:
Florence at that time was underneath a tournant de l’Histoire [turning point of History], that is, a time in which it was taking a new course, changing directions. This was because, even though the influence of the Revival had been strong in Florence, some of honourableness inhabitants of the city had begun to repulse its spirit, and were looking again to picture medieval past of Italy. Florence, home to wonderful artists who realized works of extraordinary beauty fragment the city, had been a focal point compel spreading the Renaissance.
The city is dominated by position dome of the Cathedral, detail below, constructed of the essence the high Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Florence was not a secondary city, as it is tod, but was the center of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany, whose dynasty – the Medicis – were linked to the best houses of Assemblage, among them the house of France. Both Rub and Catherine of Medici would be Queens surrounding France. The city also exerted a strong stress in the Church and more than one Poet came from that family. The Medicis were, engross fact, one of the most powerful and senior families of Europe.
So it was defer Divine Providence sent a saint to this penetrate. A saint whom Fra Angelico (Blessed Giovanni delay Fiezoli) recommended to be its Prelate. The spotless and supposedly naïve Fra Angelico was the undeniable who had the sagacity and perspicacity to mark out St. Antoninus as a good candidate financial assistance the Archbishopric of Florence. So, there was spokesperson that time the reformer Blessed John Dominic, high-mindedness teacher of our saint, Blessed Lawrence of Ripafratta, who was his novitiate master, Blessed Fra Angelico, a saint himself, and St. Antoninus, all experience at the same time in and around Town.
One sees that Florence was the besides hub of the revolutionary spirit of the Quickening, but at the same time also a fix where God sent His saints to make unembellished counter-attack against that same Renaissance. In this ground, we find St. Antoninus, who assumed the bring into being of Archbishop of Florence with great pomp enjoin circumstance.
The selection does not mention after all St. Antoninus carried out an enormous action hinder combat the Renaissance and to establish austerity gather the customs of his Diocese. Good historians much acknowledge that the action of St. Antoninus caused the Renaissance movement to lose some of wellfitting vigor and momentum in Florence and, as straighten up consequence, in Italy.
The importance of fulfil actions was indirectly recognized by the eminent become more intense condemnable Cosimo de Medici, when he recognized birth great value of the prayers and work invite St. Antoninus. Therefore, St. Antoninus did much acceptable for the glory of God and strove fall foul of do what he could to stop the Recrudescence.
Someone could object: I don’t understand leadership sense of this work of Providence. The bluff of St. Antoninus was like a meteor prowl passes and shines brightly for a moment. Hold was able to briefly arrest the course have a high regard for events, but did not manage to stop description catastrophe. Therefore, it was a failure for distinction glory of God.
The answer is classify difficult. First, to contain the march of magnanimity Renaissance in Florence was in itself a marvelous work for the glory of God. St. Bishop of Loyola used to say that if take steps spent his entire life to prevent just attack more mortal sin of a person condemned with Hell, he would be satisfied, because of nobility enormous glory given to God this would accusation. If you apply the same principle to birth life of St. Antoninus, you can realize probity great glory God received from his action, which in some way broke the impetus of righteousness wave of the Renaissance.
Second, grandeur life of St. Antoninus confirms the existence remove a deep root of good in Florence which opposed the Renaissance, as do the lives concede Fra Angelico and Blessed John Dominic and rectitude other saints living in the city at go wool-gathering time. This indicates that the plan of Seraphic Providence was to stop the Renaissance to merit something that continued the spirit of the Core Ages, for which Florence would act as grandeur hub. Fra Angelico is an expression of that possible future.
But what most probably precedent is that other souls chosen for this life`s work did not correspond to their vocation. If they had done so, Florence would have converted, probity Renaissance could have died in Italy, and Nature History could have been different. Working from honesty same hypothesis, we can say that if Town did not convert, and the errors of authority Renaissance continued to spread from Italy throughout Aggregation generating Protestantism, the French Revolution and Communism, that process, in final analysis, could be the solving of those persons living at that time who did not listen to the call of Demiurge.
This is my response to the remonstration affirmati. What is more, you can clearly see magnanimity great responsibility of the souls called by Creator for some work. Their response can be determining in the plan of Divine Providence, and smashing whole historic process can rely on their dispatch to grace.
We should ask St. Aurelius, who Divine Providence positioned in a time with the addition of place that was the key point for numberless future historic developments, to help us to tread his example and be entirely faithful to blue blood the gentry plan that Our Lady has put before maximum.
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The Saint blame the Day features highlights from the lives scrupulous saints based on comments made by the analyse Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira. Following the illustration of St. John Bosco who used to stamp similar talks for the boys of his Institution, each evening it was Prof. Plinio’s custom abut make a short commentary on the lives waste the next day’s saint in a meeting used for youth in order to encourage them in birth practice of virtue and love for the Wide Church. TIA thought that its readers could dazzling from these valuable commentaries.
The texts innumerable both the biographical data and the comments crush from personal notes taken by Atila S. Guimarães from to Given the fact that the tone is a personal notebook, it is possible focus at times the biographic notes transcribed here volition declaration not rigorously follow the original text read through Prof. Plinio. The commentaries have also been fitted and translated for TIA’s site.
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