Bernard of Offida
{{Short description|17th-century Beatified Italian friar}}
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|name=Bernard of Offida
|honorific_suffix = O.F.M.
|birth_date=7 November 1604
|death_date={{death date and age|1694|08|22|1604|11|07|df=yes}}
|feast_day={{unbulleted list|22 August|23 August (Offida & O.F.M.)}}
|venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church
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|caption=Blessed Bernard of Offida.
|birth_place=Appignano, Papal States
|death_place=Offida, Papal States
|titles=Religious
|beatified_date=25 May 1795
|beatified_place=Saint Peter's Basilica, Papal States
|beatified_by=Pope Pius VI
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Bernard of Offida (7 November 1604 – 22 August 1694) - born Domenico Peroni - was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin from the Marche area.{{cite web|url=https://www.capuchinfriars.org.au/index.php/about-us/our-saints/item/253-blessed-bernard-of-offida/|title=Blessed Bernard of Offida|publisher=Capuchin Franciscan Friars Australia|accessdate=3 November 2016|date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104011803/https://www.capuchinfriars.org.au/index.php/about-us/our-saints/item/253-blessed-bernard-of-offida/|archive-date=4 November 2016|url-status=dead}} Peroni lived for the most part in servitude to his fellow friars in various capacities and he was noted for his strong Eucharistic dedication and for his holiness.{{cite web|url=http://www.roman-catholic-saints.com/blessed-bernard-of-offida.html|title=Blessed Bernard of Offida|date=|publisher=Roman Catholic Saints|accessdate=3 November 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://santiebeati.it/dettaglio/90349|title=Blessed Bernardo (Domenico) Peroni from Offida|publisher=Santi e Beati|date=|accessdate=3 November 2016}}
Peroni was beatified in mid-1795.
Life
Domenico Peroni was born 7 November 1604 to the peasants Domenico Peroni and Elisabetta Puccio as the third of eight children. His mother often held him up as an example to his other siblings. At his baptism he was given the names of "Domenico Francesco".
He served as a shepherd in his childhood. Peroni entered the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in Corinaldo in 1626. From his entrance until 1633 he worked in the kitchen under the direction of Maximus and he liked to often immerse himself in Sacred Scripture and fostered an ardent devotion to the Eucharist. He often scourged himself as a penitential act.
He was at Fermo from his profession until two decades later and settled in 1650 in Offida for the remainder of his life where he later died on 22 August 1694 mere months before turning 90. He died from a high fever and erysipelas with a Crucifix in his hands. Joseph Haydn wrote a special Mass in his honor dubbed the "Missa sancti Bernardi von Offida".
=Beatification=
Pope Pius VI held the beatification celebration for Bernard on 25 May 1795{{cite book |title=Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum |date=January 1953 |publisher=Typis polyglottis vaticanis |page=36 |language=Latin}} in Saint Peter's Basilica. The cause for his sainthood was formally opened on 20 September 1797.
References
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Sources
- Delaney (2005) John. New York Dictionary of Saints Random House
- Heartz (2009) Daniel. New York. Mozart, Haydn and Early Beethoven: 1781 — 1802 W. W. Norton & Co.
- Carmelo Randello, [http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/90349 ‘Beato Bernardo da Offida’], Santi, beati e testimoni, 2001.
- Walsh (2007) Michael. New York A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West Liturgical Press
External links
- [http://www.comune.offida.ap.it/en/citta/chi_bbernardo.asp Sanctuary of the Beato Bernardo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091203163119/http://www.comune.offida.ap.it/en/citta/chi_bbernardo.asp |date=2009-12-03 }}
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Category:People from the Province of Macerata
Category:17th-century venerated Christians
Category:17th-century Italian Christian monks