Angelus, Clarenus, approximately 1255-1337

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Personal name heading	Angelus, Clarenus, approximately 1255-1337 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Angelo, Clareno, approximately 1255-1337 Angelo Clareno, d. 1337 Angelo, da Cingoli, approximately 1255-1337 Angelus, Clarenus, ca. 1255-1337 Clarenus, Angelus, approximately 1255-1337 Peter, of Fossombrone, approximately 1255-1337 Pierre, de Fossombrone, approximately 1255-1337 Pietro, da Fossombrone, approximately 1255-1337 Angelo, da Clareno, approximately 1255-1337 Angelus, of Clareno, approximately 1255-1337 Cingoli, Angelo da, approximately 1255-1337 Clareno, Angelo, approximately 1255-1337 Fossombrone, Pietro da, approximately 1255-1337
Located	Marche (Italy) Cingoli (Italy) Cilicia Achaia (Greece) Thessaly (Greece) Avignon (France) Subiaco (Italy)
Birth date	1255~
Death date	1337-06-15
Place of birth	Fossombrone (Italy) Chiarino (Italy)
Place of death	Marsicovetere (Italy)
Field of activity	Theology Monastic and religious life Asceticism--Catholic Church Translating and interpreting
Affiliation	Franciscans Celestines Clareni Pauperes eremitae
Profession or occupation	Theologians Monks Friars Deacons Ascetics Fraticelli Authors Translators
Found in	His Epistole, 1980: t.p. (Angeli Clareni) p. xxii (Pierre de Fossombrone, real name of Angelo Clareno; b. 1250-1255) p. xxv (d. 6/15/1337) LC data base, 8-21-84 (hdg.: Angelo Clareno, d. 1337; usage: Angelo Clareno) Frugoni, Arsenio. "Angelo Clareno (Pietro da Fossombrone)," in Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, v. 3, 1961, via Treccani.it, April 18, 2020 (Angelo Clareno (Pietro da Fossombrone) born Chiarino (between Loreto and Recanati, or near Ascoli) ca. 1255; birth name Pietro; joined Franciscans ca. 1270 in Cingoli or Fossombrone, and thus in some sources called Pietro da Fossombrone; deacon, never ordained a priest; joined a group of extreme pauperist Franciscans in the March of Ancona who were persecuted by the order; reprieved and sent with others of the group, including Pietro da Macerata, to Cilicia, Armenia; returned to Italy with Pietro da Macerata, but no Franciscan convent would accept them, so they appealed to Pope Celestine V at l'Aquila [1294], who created a new congregation for them of "pauperes eremitae" who could live in Celestine convents, at which time Pietro da Macerata took the name fra' Liberato and Pietro da Fossombrone that of fra' Angelo; after Pope Celestine's abdication, further condemnations and persecutions followed, and years abroad in Greece (Achaia, Trixonia, Thessaly); after fra' Liberato's death, became leader of the group; by 1311, when he went to France for the Council of Vienne to plead (unsuccessfully) for a restoration of the pauperist ideal of the order, he was acknowledged a leader by all the Franciscan "spirituali" of Italy; died 6/15/1337 in the hermitage of S. Maria di Aspro [in Marsicovetere], Basilicata; reference from Angelo da Cingoli) <http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/angelo-clareno_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/> D'Anversa, Fredegando. "Angelo Clareno, detto da Cingoli, beato," in Enciclopedia Italiana (1929) via Treccani.it, April 18, 2020 (Angelo Clareno, detto da Cingoli, beato; born Fossombrone, 1247; died 6/15/1337) <http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/angelo-clareno-detto-da-cingoli-beato_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29/> Campbell, J. "Angelus Clarenus," in New Catholic encyclopedia, 2nd edition, c2003, accessed online April 18, 2020 (Angelus Clarenus, Franciscan author, cofounder of the Clareni; b. Peter at Fossombrone (Pesaro), March of Ancona; died 6/15/1337 in Santa Maria dell'Aspro, Basilicata, Italy; "After joining the Franciscans at Cingoli, Italy, c. 1270, he became a partisan of the Franciscan Spirituals, and after the Council of Lyons (1274) was on this account condemned to life imprisonment in 1275. When freed c. 1289 ... he and other Franciscan Spirituals from Ancona went to Lesser Armenia, but the hostility of the Franciscans [there] forced the group back to Ancona (early 1294), where they were not welcome. Consequently, Friar Peter of Macerata, together with Peter, went to Pope Celestine V and obtained permission for their group to leave the Franciscan First Order and become Celestines. Peter of Macerata took the name of Liberatus: Peter of Fossombrone, that of Angelus (the Clarenus or Chiarino was added later). Boniface VIII, however, voided the authorization granted these Franciscan Celestines, or more properly Clareni, and they migrated to one of the islands of Achaia, to southern Thessaly, and back to Italy in 1304-05. When Liberatus died, Angelus succeeded him (1307) as head of the group. In 1311 he attempted to obtain papal recognition for the Clareni, but he was received by the pope only in 1317. John XXII acknowledged Angelus's personal innocence, but the Franciscan minister general ... would not tolerate a separate group in the order, and Angelus agreed to receive the habit of the Benedictine Celestines--despite their opposition ... Angelus moved to the lands of Subiaco and devoted himself to his followers ... On November 22, [1331], John XXII ordered inquisitorial proceedings against Angelus, but the inquisitor died. In February 1334 came new pontifical orders; Angelus fled to Basilicata where he died") Holweck. F.G. A biographical dictionary of the saints, 1924, retrieved online April 18, 2020: page 77 (Angelus of Clareno, or of Cingoli (B.), laybrother (no priest), O.F.M., one of the leaders of the so-called spiritual Franciscans) Potestà, Gian Luca. "Angelo Clareno," in Oxford encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, 2002, published online 2005, accessed online April 18, 2020 ("Angelo Clareno (c.1255-1337), Franciscan, leader of the fraticelli of central-southern Italy. In his youth, because of his position in favour of radical poverty, rejected by the majority of the order, he spent several years in prison; he was freed in 1290. After a first stay in Cilicia, he returned to Italy (1294) and was one of those who received verbal authorization from Pope Celestine V to set up the autonomous congregation of Pauperes eremite domini Celestini. To escape the order's hostility and that of Boniface VIII, they took refuge in Greece for ten years. There, Clareno collected and translated into Latin a large corpus of ascetic writings still largely unknown in the West, among them Basil's Asceticon, the Pseudo-Basilian Constitutiones monasticae, Pseudo-Macarius's Opuscula ascetica and John Climacus's Scala Paradisi. Back in Italy (1307), he followed Cardinal Giacomo Colonna to the Avignon Curia, where he worked in vain to obtain full ecclesiastical recognition for the Poor Hermits, whose leader he had become in the meantime. The new pope, John XXII, ordered the dissident Franciscans (called fraticelli from this period) to submit to the discipline of the order. Clareno took refuge at Subiaco (1318-1334), from where he maintained contacts with the communities of fraticelli of central-southern Italy; sought by the Inquisition, he fled to Basilicata. From 1312 to the eve of his death, his ecclesiastical and religious career is documented by the collection of 80 Latin Epistulae ... His most famous work is the Chronicon seu Historia septem tribulationum ordinis minorum, written between 1323 and 1326") Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm. "Angelo da Clareno," in Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Bd. 1, 1990, columns 173-174, accessed online April 18, 2020 (Angelo da Clareno (Angelus von Cingoli; Pietro da Fossombrone), founder of the Clarenes, a separatist branch of the Franciscan order, born in Fossombrone or Cingoli (March of Ancona), died 15.6. 1337 in S. Maria d'Aspro (South Italy); founded the hermit brotherhood of the Clarenes (Clareni fratres) in the March of Ancona by the river Clareno; all separatist groups were abolished in 1317 by Pope John XXII and subjected to the Inquisition; they suffered severe persecution, and some were sentenced to death; Angelo avoided persecution for himself and his followers by his "Epistola excusatoria ad Papam de falso impositis et fratrum calumniis")
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