Giovanni Colombini
Giovanni Colombini (c. 1304 – 31 July 1367) was an Italian merchant and founder of the Congregation of
Biography
He was born at
His son having meanwhile died and his daughter taken the veil, Colombini with the approval of his wife, on whom he first settled a life-annuity, divided his fortune into three parts: the first went to endow a hospital, the second and third to two cloisters. Together with his friend Francisco Mini, Colombini lived henceforward a life of poverty, and begged for his daily bread. He was joined by three of the Piccolomini and by members of other patrician families, who likewise distributed all their goods among the poor.
Many of the Sienese complained that Colombini was inciting all the most promising young men of the city to "folly", and succeeded in procuring his banishment. Accompanied by twenty-five companions, Colombini visited in succession Arezzo, Città di Castello, Pisa and other Tuscan cities. He resumed on his return his former charitable occupations.
On the return of
Urban selected as their habit a white
Their statutes were at first based on the
Later history of the Order
Under Mini and his successor, Jerome Dasciano, the Jesuati spread rapidly over Italy. and in 1606 the Holy See allowed the reception of priests into the congregation. Some authorities have claimed that abuses crept in subsequently. The congregation was suppressed by
The Jesuatesses or Sisters of the Visitation of Mary, founded about 1367 at the suggestion of Colombini by his cousin Catharine Colombini of Siena (d. 20 October 1387), spoke as little as possible, fasted very strictly, and chastised their bodies twice daily. They survived in Italy until 1872.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Millard Meiss, Painting in Florence and Siena After the Black Death (1978), p. 86.
- Encyclopedia Press.
- ISBN 978-0374176815.
Sources
- Baluze, Miscell., ed. MANSI IV, 566;
- Pardi, "Della vita e degli scritti di Giovanni Colunbini da Siena" in Bull. Senese stor., II (1895), 1-50, 202-30;
External links
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Blessed John Colombini". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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