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Bernardine of Feltre, Blessed

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Italian Franciscan missionary, died 1494. Of little note as an author. Best remembered for his monti di pieta, a type of charitable lender similar to pawnbrokers

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Leo, Lives of the Saints and Blessed of the Three Orders of St. Francis (Taunton, 1886), III, 243-265; Wadding, Annales Minorum, VI, 142, XII, 442, passim; Acta SS., September, VII, 814-914; Zanettini, Compendio della vita del Beato Feltrese, Bernardino Tomitano (Milan); Flornoy, Le Bienheureux Bernardin de Feltre (Paris, 1898); Ludovice de Besse, Le Bienheureux Bernardin de Feltre et son oeuvre (Tours, 1902).

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APA citation. Donovan, S. (1907). Bl. Bernardine of Feltre. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02504c.htm

MLA citation. Donovan, Stephen. "Bl. Bernardine of Feltre." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. <https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02504c.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Olivia Olivares. Dedicated to the memory of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin (1928-1996).

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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Source Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) · Letter B

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