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BARTHOLOMEW AGRICOLA, PRIEST - 23 MAY

 

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BARTHOLOMEW AGRICOLA, PRIEST 

Bartholomaeus Agricola, remembered on May 23, was a German priest from Amberg in the Bavarian Upper Palatinate, who belonged to the Franciscan order and died in 1621 in Naples. 

The process of his beatification is said to have begun soon after his death; but whether a beatification actually took place is not known. 

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858 - 📷 1. Friar Bartholomew Agricola, 2. Amberg)

A convert to the Faith, Bartholomew left his hometown for Italy in 1577. There he was received into the Catholic Church and applied for admission to a Franciscan convent. Later he paid a visit to Amberg to attempt to bring his family into the Church, whereupon they stopped talking to him.

Bartholomew Agricola worked in Assisi for three years, where he was responsible for church music. There he also wrote the first conferences on asceticism. After stays in other Franciscan convents in Bari, Trani, Bitonto and Molfetta and his ordination as a priest, Agricola finally came to the monastery of San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples. There he worked as a people's preacher and dedicated himself to caring for the poor and the sick.

Bartholomew died on May 23, 1621. He had been known as a saintly man. His grave in Naples is traditionally the destination of many pilgrims. After the original tomb was destroyed in World War II, his relics were transferred to the Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore in 1987. A beatification process was approved shortly after his death, but it was only formally initiated more than a century later and then not pursued further; recently it was resumed. A portrait in the Schönau monastery church shows him in a habit with a cross on his shoulder.

(Source:

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholom%C3%A4us_Agricola)

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