Jacques De Voragine
Jacques de Voragine Biography Jacques de Voragine born between 1225 and 1230 in Varazze near Genoa in Liguria ( Italy ). In 1244 , the same year as Thomas Aquinas , he took the habit and joined the Order of Preachers founded by Dominic de Guzman. He moved to the Convent of Genoa, Santa Maria in Castello (founded 1222). Between 1246 and 1251, he was sent to the Studium Generale Bologna prestigious center of the Dominican order. In 1252, he returned to be lector at the convent of Genoa (elevated to the priory since 1229, he was a man who inculqut basic education to the brethren). In virtually no passing of Jacques de Voragine in a university, which may seem surprising in a career so well done in order. It was sub-prior of the convent of Genoa in 1258 and then prior of the convents of Asti and Genoa. This central position played for a lot in spreading the Golden Legend in the Dominican convent. The Golden Legend was launched in 1260 and will be revised until his death in 1298. During the General Chapter of Bologna in 1267 he became prior provincial of Lombardy, that is to say, of all northern Italy, position he held from 1267 to 1277, then 1281 to 1286. He also assured the Acting DG of the order to the death of John of Vercelli from 1283 to 1285. He represented his province at the councils of Lucca in 1288 and Ferrara in 1290. In the latter, it is one of four delegates to the pope Nicolas IV to request the testimony of Munio de Zamora , Master of the Order of Preachers since 1285. Munio Zamora is so removed from office by a papal bull dated 12 April 1291. I In 1288 , the city of Genoa sends Jacques de Voragine with Nicolas IV to release the Genoese of excommunication which they are struck because of their assistance to the Sicilians against King Charles II. In 1292 , Nicolas Jacques de Voragine IV summoned to Rome to spend the Archbishop of Genoa. But when he arrived in Rome on March 30, the pope is gravely ill. He died on April 4 without having conducted the consecration. In the end, the cardinals who called the archbishop on Sunday following Easter. Jacques de Voragine fulfills its duties with great dedication, including multiplying efforts to reconcile the two political factions of Guelphs and Ghibellines that tear Genoa, which he managed to do in January 1295. It also participates, as an envoy of the pope on several mediation in the conflict between the Republic of Genoa to that of Venice. He died in July 1298 in Genoa , asking that the money for his funeral to be distributed to the poor. Bibliography: Internal Links
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