Sylvester Gozzolini: Difference between revisions

|name honorific_prefix= Saint Sylvester Guzzolini

|venerated_in = [[Roman Catholic Church]]

|beatified_date = 1260s1267/69

|canonized_place = [[Rome]], Papal States

[[Canonization|Saint]] '''Silvestro Guzzolini''' (1177 – 26 November 1267) was an Italian [[ItalianCatholic peopleChurch|ItalianCatholic]] [[RomanPriesthood in the Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[priest]] and the founder of the [[Sylvestrines|Silvestrini]].<ref name=SQPN>{{citewebcite web|url=https://catholicsaints.info/saint-sylvester-gozzolini/|title=Saint Sylvester Gozzolini|publisher=Saints SQPN|date=1 December 2016|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref> He served as a [[Canon (priest)|canon]] in [[Osimo]] but respectful rebukes of his [[Bishops in the Catholic Church|bishop]]'s inappropriate conduct led him to leave for a [[Hermitage (religious retreat)|hermitage]] before the bishop could strip him of his position.<ref name=NA>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14372b.htm|first=Douglas Raymund|last=Webster|title="St. Sylvester Gozzolini"|encyclopedia=The Catholic Encyclopedia|volume=XIV|publisher=Robert Appleton Company|date=1912|accessdate=30 January 2014}}</ref> He remained in his hermitage with a determination to found a religious congregation and based it upon the [[Order of Saint Benedict]] after having a dream of [[Saint Benedict of Nursia]]. His order received papal approval from [[Pope Innocent IV]] which allowed his order to expand across Italian cities to a significant degree.<ref name=SEB>{{citewebcite web|url=http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/79250|title=San Silvestro Guzzolini|date=|publisher=Santi e Beati|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref><ref name=BT>{{citewebcite web|url=http://www.bartleby.com/210/11/263.html|author=Alban Butler|title=''Lives of the Saints''|date=12 January 2023|page=|accessdate=|volume=XI}}</ref>

His [[beatification]] was confirmed in the 1260s after his death in 1267, and he was later [[Canonization|canonized]] in 1598 as a saint.<ref name=SQPN/><ref name=SEB/>

Guzzolini was sent in 1197 to learn [[jurisprudence]] in [[University of Bologna|the college]] at [[Bologna]] (for law) and [[University of Padua|the college]] in [[Padua]] but felt called to the ecclesiastical state (finding no satisfaction in his studies and deeming them too secular) and abandoned his studies in law for [[Theology|theological]] and [[Holy Scripture|scriptural]] studies.<ref name=SEB/> On his return home in 1208 it is said that his father – angeredfather—angered at his change of purpose – refused—refused to speak to him for oneten decadeyears.<ref name=SQPN/><ref name=NA/> After the diocesan bishop [[Holy orders in the Catholic Church|ordained]] him in 1217, Guzzolini accepted a position as a [[Canon (priest)|canon]] at Osimo. (after the diocesan bishop [[ordained]] him in 1217) andHe devoted himself to pastoral work with such zeal as to arouse hostilitieshostility from his bishop, whom he had respectfully rebuked with respect for the scandals that the prelate's irregular life had caused.<ref name=BT/>

The prelate threatened to strip him of his position, but the canonGuzzolini decided to leave the world uponwhen, seeingwhile presiding over a funeral, he saw the corpse of one who had once been noted for their looks while presiding over a funeral.<ref name=SEB/> He retired to a desertdeserted place far from Osimo in 1227 and lived there in strict poornesspoverty until the owner of the land –, the nobleman Corrado –, recognized him and offered him a better site for his hermitage. The dampnessdamp drove him from that place, and he established himself next at Grotta Fucile where he later built a [[convent]] for his future [[religious order]]. In this place his penances were most severe, for he lived on raw herbs and water and slept on the bare ground.<ref name=BT/><ref name=NA/> DisciplesHe flockedmay tohave himbeen seekinginspired hisby directionsaint and[[Bonfilius]], ita becamehermit vitalwho fororiginally himhad toalso choosecome afrom Rule.Osimo Hisand famelived worriedhis [[Popefinal Gregory IX]]years in 1228a andhermitage he decidedclose to send the [[Order of Preachers|DominicanFilottrano]] friars Riccardo and Bonaparte to him to invite him into their order but he refused.<ref name=SEB/"Parolin">{{cite Legendjournal suggests|last1=Parolin that|first1=Pietro the|title=ST variousSYLVESTER foundersTHE appearedRELEVANCE toOF himA inCHARISM a|journal=Symposium visionHeld eachat beggingFabriano himMonastery toof adoptSt hisSylvester Rule.|date=3 GuzzoliniJune chose2017}}</ref> forSylvester hislater followersbuild thatone of [[Saintthe Benedictfirst of Nursia]]monasteries in 1231his (aftername havingclose ato visionthis ofhermitage theand saint)likely andalso builtwrote histhe first conventbiography onof [[Montefano]]Bonfilius.<ref nearname="Nicolini">{{cite [[Fabriano]]encyclopedia|last1=Nicolini after|first1=Ugolino first|title=BONFIGLIO, removingsanto the|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/santo-bonfiglio_res-779a85c5-87e8-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_(Dizionario-Biografico) remains|via=Treccani of|encyclopedia=Dizionario aBiografico [[Paganismdegli Italiani|pagan]]volume= temple.<ref name12|date=SQPN/><ref1971 name|access-date=SEB1 December 2022}}</ref>

[[File:The Statue of Sylvester Gozzolini at St. Sylvester's College Kandy Sri Lanka.jpg|thumb|Statue at a[[St. collegeSylvester's in his nameCollege]] in [[Sri Lanka]]]]

The account of his miracles and the growth of his "cultus" (or longstanding veneration) can be found in Bolzonetti. [[Pope Clement IV]] beatified Guzzolini and [[Pope Clement VIII]] later canonized him in 1598. [[Pope Leo XIII]] included his Mass and office in the General Roman Calendar in 1890 with the rank of Double (third-class feast in the 1960 reform of [[Pope John XXIII]]) therefore reducing to the status of a commemoration that of [[Pope Peter I of Alexandria]] who shared that date. In 1970, that celebration was removed and relegated to the local calendar since it was not a feast of universal importance.<ref>{{citecitation|title=''Calendarium Romanum''|publisher=Libreria Editrice Vaticana|date=1969|page=147}}</ref><ref>{{citewebcite web|url=http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=5304|title=St. Sylvester Gozzolini|date=|publisher=Catholic Online|accessdate=11 October 2017}}</ref>

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