Valerianus Berna (Valerianus a Pinarolio/Valerianus a Pinarolo/Valeriano Berna/Valeriano da Pinerolo, d. 1617)

Valerianus Berna (Valerianus a Pinarolio/Valerianus a Pinarolo/Valeriano Berna/Valeriano da Pinerolo, d. 1617) OFMCap. Italian Capuchin friar. Born in Pinerolo (Piedmont). Entered the order in the Genoa province. Promotor of Capuchin expansion into the German lands. Provincial definitor and provincial minister of the Genoa province, as well as Commissary for the missions in the Piedmont mountain regions. Died at Genoa, in the Immaculate Conception convent. Wrote several volumes of sermons and a history of the Capuchin expansion.

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• Historia de Origine Institutione et Progressu Missionis Capuccinorum in Subalpinis : Check!

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• Letters: five missionary letters (addressed at Carlo Emanuel I, Pope Clement VIII, and Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini) are included in I Frati Cappuccini: Documenti e testimonianze dell primo secolo , ed. C. Cargnoni, 4 Vols. (Perugia: Edizioni Frate Indovino, 1988-1992) III/2 , 4183-4201. For an English translation, see https://www.capdox.capuchin.org.au/missions-and-missionaries/five-letters-sent-by-valeriano-berna-from-pinerolo/ [last checked 4 October 2024].

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