James of the Marches

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Saint

James of the Marches
chalice, out of which a snake is escaping
PatronagePatron of Monteprandone, co-patron of Naples, Italy

Jacob de Marchia (

Friar Minor, preacher and writer.[1] He was a Papal legate and Inquisitor
.

Early life

He was born Dominic Gangala (

Bernardine of Siena.[1] He began a very austere life fasting nine months of the year. Bernardine told him to moderate his penances.[2]

Priest and inquisitor

On 13 June 1420, he was ordained a priest and soon began to preach in

Marches, and in Umbria; for half a century he carried on his spiritual labours, remarkable for the miracles he performed and the numerous conversions he wrought. He helped spread devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus.[2] From 1427, James preached penance, combated heretics, and was on legations in Germany, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Bohemia, Poland, Hungary, and Bosnia. He was also appointed inquisitor against the Fraticelli, a heretic sect that dissented from the Franciscans on the vow of poverty, among other things.[3]

He was sent by the Papal Council as an

Tvrtko I as the cause of failure of Franciscan mission.[4] Between 1434 and 1439 he worked in Southern Hungary against heretics.[7] In August, 1439, he imprisoned Bálint Újlaki, who first translated the Bible into Hungarian (Hussite Bible
).

At the time of the

John Capistran, in 1456, James was sent to Hungary as his successor.[3] In 1457 he was sent to Danish king Christian I to discuss the Turkish crusade and also the Bohemian issue.[8]

He instituted several

montes pietatis (literally, "mountains of piety": nonprofit credit organizations that lent money at very low rates on pawned objects), and preached in all the greater cities.[3] He was offered the bishopric of Milan in 1460, which he declined.[3]

James belonged to the

John Capistran.[9] King Tvrtko II was a major opponent of James's reforms in Bosnia, and was probably strongly influenced in that regard by Queen Dorothy.[6]

Under Pope

cardinals, but no decision was ever given.[3] James spent the last three years of his life in Naples
, and died there on 28 November 1476.

Writings

Confessione, 1476

His writings have not yet been collected. His library and autographs are preserved in part at the Municipio of Monteprandone (see Crivellucci, "I codici della libreria raccolta da S. Giacomo della Marca nel convento di S. Maria delle Grazie presso Monteprandone", Leghorn, 1889).

He wrote "Dialogus contra Fraticellos" printed in Baluze-Mansi, "Miscellanea", II, Lucca, 1761, 595-610 (cf. Franz Ehrle in "Archiv für Litt. u. Kirchengeschichte", IV, Freiburg im Br., 1888, 107–10).

His numerous sermons are not edited. For some of them, and for his treatise on the "Miracles of the Name of Jesus", see Candido Mariotti, "Nome di Gesù ed i Francescani", Fano, 1909, 125–34.

On his notebook, or "Itinerarium", See Luigi Tasso in "Miscellanea Francescana", I (1886), 125-26: "Regula confitendi peccata" was several times edited in Latin and Italian during the fifteenth century. "De Sanguine Christi effuse" and some other treatises remained in manuscript.

Veneration

James was buried in Naples in the Franciscan church of

chalice, out of which a snake is escaping – an allusion to some endeavours of heretics to poison him or, less likely, to the controversy about the Precious Blood.[10]

Annotations

  1. ^
    In English he is known as James of the Marches or James della Marca. He is also known by his surname and monastic given name as Jacob/Jacopo/James Gangala. Another name is Dominic/Domenico Gangala. "James" is a variant of both Jacobus and Giacomo. He is also known as Jacobus Picenus (after his birth place).

References

  1. ^ a b c Oliger, Livarius. "St. James of the Marches." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 4 Feb. 2013
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-86716-887-7
  3. ^ a b c d e ""St. James of the Marches", Catholic News Agency". Archived from the original on 2016-01-30. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-0-521-28926-9
    .
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0-86356-503-8
    .
  6. ^
    Fine, John Van Antwerp
    (1975), The Bosnian Church: Its Place in State and Society from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 206
  7. ^ Nemeskürty István (1989). Daliás idők (in Hungarian). Budapest: Magvető. pp. 122–127.
  8. ISBN 978-90-474-1984-6
    .
  9. ^ Nic. Dal-Gal, O.F.M., in "Archivum Franciscanum Historicum", I (1908), 94-97.
  10. ^ Santi e Beati "San Giacomo della Marca" [1](in Italian)

Sources

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "St. James of the Marches". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
John of Korčula
 Vicar of Bosnia
1435–1438 		Succeeded by
John of Waya
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