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Something wrong?A 15th-century Franciscan whose open-air sermons drew thousands and whose "bonfires of the vanities" - public burnings of dice, cosmetics, and playing cards - made him both a folk hero and a lightning rod across Renaissance Italy.
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Antonio Marescotti, Saint Bernardino of Siena, 1380-1444, Canonized 1450 (obverse), c. 1444-1462, NGA 44372
Antonio marescotti, san bernardino da siena_-_Virgin_and_Child_with_Saints_John%2C_Catherine_and_Bernardino_of_Siena_-_1871.88_-_Yale_University_Art_Gallery.jpg?width=1200)
Bartolomeo Neroni (Il Riccio) - Virgin and Child with Saints John, Catherine and Bernardino of Siena - 1871.88 - Yale University Art Gallery
Bernardino da Siena - Tractatus de contractis et usuris, 15th-century manuscript - BEIC 10592116
Bernardino da Siena
Brescia antico palazzo stemma san Bernardino by Stefano Bolognini
Eremo delle Carceri-BernardinoAbout this person
Born Bernardino degli Albizzeschi on 8 September 1380 in the Republic of Siena, he joined the Franciscans and became a missionary preacher whose crowds often numbered in the tens of thousands. His sermons targeted gambling, infanticide, witchcraft, sodomy, Jews, Romani people, and usury, and he organized mass burnings of objects he deemed sinful. A systematizer of scholastic economics, he sought to revive Italian Catholicism during a period of spiritual decline. He died on 20 May 1444 and was canonized by Pope Nicholas V six years later, earning the title "Apostle of Italy" for his campaign to restore the faith.
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