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Francis of Paula, Saint
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Confessor, founder of the Order of Minims, born Paula, Italy, 1416; died Plessis-les-Tours, France, 1507. He began at an early age to show signs of extraordinary sanctity; at 14 he retired to a cave on the sea-coast and lived there as an anchorite for six years. In 1454 he assembled his followers at the monastery which he built near Paula; they were first known as "Hermits of Saint Francis" but later were called Minims by Pope Alexander VI who gave formal approbation to the order. He founded new monasteries in Calabria and Sicily and established convents of nuns, and an order of laymen. He attended Louis XI in Plessis-les-Tours at his death, and remained in France as counselor to Charles VIII and Louis XII. His body was burned by Calvinists, 1562. Emblem: a scapular. Canonized, 1519. Feast, Roman Calendar, April 2,.
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Entry for 'Francis of Paula, Saint'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/f/francis-of-paula-saint.html. 1910.
