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Saint Bernardino of Siena (sometimes Bernardine, September 8, 1380 – May 20, 1444) was an Italian priest, preacher, Franciscan missionary and Christian saint.Bernardino was born in 1380 to the noble Albizeschi family in Massa Marittima (Tuscany), a Sienese town of which his father was then governor. Left orphaned at six, he was raised by a pious aunt. On the completion of his education he spent some years in the service of the sick in the hospitals. While he was studying civil and canon law in Siena, he worked in the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala throughout the bubonic plague outbreak of 1400 and even urged other young men to stay and help. He thus caught the plague, of which he nearly died.In 1402 or 1404, he joined the Franciscan order in the strict branch called Observant, of which he became one of the chief promoters, after donating all his possessions to the poor. About 1406 Saint Vincent Ferrer, while preaching at Alessandria in Piedmont, foretold that his mantle should descend upon one who was then listening to him, and said that he would return to France and Spain leaving to Bernardino the task of evangelizing the remaining peoples of Italy.
Attributes:Tablet with IHS; three mitres representing the bishoprics which he refused
Patronage:advertisers; advertising; Aquila, Italy; chest problems; communications personnel; Trevignano Romano, Italy; diocese of San Bernardino, California; gambling addicts; Italy; public relations personnel; public relations work; compulsive gambling; lung problems; lungs; against hoarseness; respiratory problems; uncontrolled gambling
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