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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE
Father Ludovico Maria Sinistrari, of the
Order of Reformed Minors of the strict
Observance of St. Francis, was born in
Ameno, a small town of the district of
St. Julius, in the diocese of Novara, on the
26th of February 1622. He received a li-
beral education and went through a course
of humanities in Pavia, where, in the
year 1647, he entered the Order of Fran-
ciscans. Devoting himself henceforward to
tuition, he was first a professor of Philosophy
; he then, during fifteen successive
years, taught Theology in the same town,
amidst a numerous concourse of students
attracted from all parts of Europe by his
high repute. His sermons preached in the
principal cities of Italy, at the same time
as they caused his eloquence to be admir-
I. This Notice is an extract from tome I of the complete
works of Father Sinistrari, Romce, i'/53.