Saint bernardine of siena biography of martin
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Bernardine of Siena, Saint
In 1433 Bemardine accompanied the Emperor Sigismund to Rome for the latter’s coronation. Soon after he withdrew to Capriola to compose a series of sermons.
He resumed his missionary labors in 1436, but was forced to abandon them in 1438 on his election as Vicar-General of the Observants through-out Italy.
Saint bernardine of siena biography of martin
Bernardine had labored strenuously to spread this branch of the Friars Minor from the outset of his religious life, but it is erroneous to style him its founder since the origin of the Observants may be traced back to the middle of the fourteenth century.
Although not the immediate founder of this reform, Bemardine became to the Observants what St. Bernard was to the Cistercians—their principal support and indefatigable propagator. Some idea of his zeal may be gathered from the fact that, instead of the one hundred and thirty Friars constituting the Observance in Italy at Bernardine’s reception into the order, it counted over four thousand be