Pamfilo da Magliano
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The Very Reverend Father Pamfilo of Magliano, O.S.F. |
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| Custos Provincial, Custody of the Immaculate Conception O.F.M. | |
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| Other posts | 1st President of St. Bonaventure University |
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| Ordination | 18 December 1846 |
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| Birth name | Giovanni Paulo Pietrobattista |
| Born | 12 (or 22) April 1824 Magliano de' Marsi, L'Aquila Kingdom of the Two Sicilies |
| Died | 15 November 1876 San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, Kingdom of Italy |
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Cemetery of Verano Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Pamfilo of Magliano, O.S.F. (now O.F.M.), was an Italian Franciscan friar, who went to the United States in 1855 to help establish the Order there. He was responsible for the establishment of major institutions of the Order in the Northeastern United States. He founded two religious institutes of Sisters of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis.
Little is known of Pamfilo's life prior to his admission into the Franciscan Order, other than that he was born Giovanni Paulo Pietrobattista on either 12 or 22 April 1824, in the village of Magliano de' Marsi, which is in the Province of L'Aquila in the mountainous Abruzzo region of central Italy. At that time it was under the rule of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Pietrobattista grew up in a parish administered by the Friars Minor and frequented their church. When he was of age, on 5 July 1839, he entered the Province of St. Bernadine of Siena, based in Urbino, taking the name Pamfilo (possibly after St. Pamphilus of Sulmona). He was ordained a Catholic priest in Urbino on 18 December 1846. After his ordination, he was given Chairs in both philosophy and theology at the Order's friary there. He taught there until October 1852, when he was sent to Rome to serve as secretary to the Visitor General of the Order. On 8 December of that year, he began to teach at one of the Order's institutions of higher learning, the Irish College of St. Isidore, where he was able to perfect his command of English. He remained in this post until 4 January 1855.
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