Pietro Caperolo
Friar Minor,
date of birth unknown; d. at
Velletri in 1480; he was a man of much energy and great learning, and was held in high esteem as a preacher by the people of
Brescia,
Velletri, and other cities of Northern
Italy. Caperolo played an important part in the religious disturbances, which arose about the year 1475, between the
Franciscan provinces of
Milan and
Venice, and which were occasioned in great measure by the
war then going on between
Milan and the
Venetian Republic. After considerable difficulty Caperolo succeeded in obtaining permission from
Pope Sixtus IV to separate several
convents of the
Venetian province from the obedience of the Observants, and to form a
vicariate, which was placed under the obedience of the
Conventuals, but retained the
right to
elect its own provincial superior. The members of the new congregation were known as Caperolani, from Caperolo their founder. The death of Caperolo, however, put an end to the Caperolani as a distinct branch within the order, and all the members of the new vicariate without exception returned to the obedience of the Observants.
Sources
Wadding, Annales Minorum (Rome, 1732), XIII, 402; XIV, 242; Kobler in Kirchenlex., s.v.
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APA citation. Donovan, S. (1908). Pietro Caperolo. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved April 26, 2010 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03308a.htm
MLA citation. Donovan, Stephen. "Pietro Caperolo." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. 26 Apr. 2010 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03308a.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Katherine M. Wrightson. In memoriam, Virginia Hagen Wrightson.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. November 1, 1908. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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