Unrecorded Minim Manual
[FRANCIS OF PAOLA, Saint.]
I tredici venerdì del glorioso S. Francesco di Paola di nuovo riordinati, e in miglior’ forma ridotti, con altre pie orazioni nel fine, per uso delle persone divote. Fano, Andrea Donati, 1756.
12mo, pp. [2], 60, [2]; with copper-engraved portrait of St Francis of Paola and a page of engraved prayers bound in at the beginning; woodcut ornament to title; slightly browned, text block split but holding between pp. 36 and 37; a good copy in contemporary carta rustica, boards covered with green patterned paper, red patterned paper pastedowns; rubbed.
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I tredici venerdì del glorioso S. Francesco di Paola di nuovo riordinati, e in miglior’ forma ridotti, con altre pie orazioni nel fine, per uso delle persone divote.
A seemingly unrecorded edition of prayers, meditations, and hymns for the thirteen Fridays in honour of St Francis of Paola, founder of the Order of Minims, printed in the Italian city of Fano on the Adriatic coast.
Francis (1416–1507) was ‘renowned for his holiness throughout Italy and beyond its frontiers, and many miraculous cures were attributed to him. His fame was such that Louis XI of France, in terror of death after an apoplectic fit, sent for him; while his son, Charles VIII, kept him near him as his spiritual director and built him two monasteries’ (Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church).
Francis established the practice of the thirteen Fridays himself, in honour of Christ and the twelve Apostles, reciting thirteen Pater Nosters and as many Ave Marias on each Friday. This devotion was adopted by his followers in the run up to the saint’s feast day on 2 April. Each Friday focuses on a particular virtue of Francis, from his humility to the celestial favours obtained by him. Several additional devotions to the Virgin Mary and to St Anne can be found at the end.
The fine engraved portrait, showing the saint with his motto ‘charitas’ below, and facing engraved page of prayers was printed at Rome at the instigation of the Minim friar Franciscus Francoeur.
No copies traced on OCLC or OPAC SBN.