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Andrea Corsini (30 November 1302 – 6 January 1373 or 1374 [2] [3]) was an Italian Catholic prelate and professed member from the Carmelites who served as the Bishop of Fiesole from 1349 until his death.
Of particular note is Andrea, who was Bishop of Fiesole from 1349 until his death in 1373. [2] He was made a Saint in 1629 (Sant Andrea Corsini, or Saint Andrew Corsini) because of his life of penitence, meditation and dedication to helping the poor. [3] His brother, Neri, was also a Bishop of Fiesole and reached the status of blessed by the ...
Andrea Corsini (11 June 1735, Florence – 18 January 1795, Rome) was an Italian cardinal. A great-nephew of pope Clement XII and a nephew of cardinal Neri Maria Corsini . Pope Clement XIII made him a cardinal in the consistory of 24 September 1759.
Andrea Corsini (30 November 1302 – 6 January 1373 or 1374) was an Italian Catholic prelate and professed member from the Carmelites who served as the Bishop of Fiesole from 1349 until his death. Corsini led a wild and dissolute life until a rebuke from his mother moved him to go to the Santa Maria del Carmine church where he resolved to join ...
Andrea Corsini (1302–1373), Professed Priest of the Carmelites of the Ancient Observance; Bishop of Fiesole (Italy) Beatified: 21 April 1440 by Pope Eugene IV; Canonized: 22 April 1629 by Pope Urban VIII; Caterina Lucrezia de' Pazzi (rel. name: Maria Maddalena) (1566–1607), Professed Religious of the Carmelites of the Ancient Observance (Italy)
The earliest mention of a bishop of Fiesole comes at the end of the 5th century, in a letter of Pope Gelasius I (492–496), though the name of the bishop is not given. A half-century later, under Pope Vigilius (537–555), a Bishop Rusticus is mentioned as papal legate at one of the councils of Constantinople. At the end of the 6th century ...
The Corsini, one of the richest families in Florence during the 17th–18th centuries, had this chapel built in 1675–1683, to hold the remains of an ancestral member of the family, St Andrea Corsini (1301–1374), who became a Carmelite friar and the Bishop of Fiesole, and who was canonized in 1629.
A diocesan synod was an irregularly held, but important, meeting of the bishop of a diocese and his clergy. Its purpose was (1) to proclaim generally the various decrees already issued by the bishop; (2) to discuss and ratify measures on which the bishop chose to consult with his clergy; (3) to publish statutes and decrees of the diocesan synod ...