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Venerable Francesco Antonio Marcucci (27 November 1717 – 12 July 1798) was a Roman Catholic Italian bishop and a member of the Secular Franciscan Order. Marcucci was also the founder of the Pious Workers of Mary Immaculate. Marcucci was declared to have lived a life of heroic Christian virtue and was proclaimed to be Venerable in 2010 after Pope Benedict XVI ratified a decree. ==Biography== Francesco Antonio Marcucci was born in 1717 as the son of Leopoldo Marcucci and Giovanna Battista Gigli. He was drawn to the priesthood despite the objection of his parents. Marcucci travelled to Rome after his mother died and he studied in colleges that the Dominicans, Jesuits and Franciscans ran with the support of his aunt, Francesca Gastaldi. Marcucci later met the future saint Leonard of Port Maurice in April 1739 and would write the "Introduction on Evangelic Preaching" in 1740. He was later ordained to the priesthood on 25 February 1741. He felt a call to the Franciscan life and became a professed member of the Secular Franciscan Order. He would later go on to found the Pious Workers of Mary Immaculate on 8 December 1774. He assisted in the teaching of the female religious and served as their spiritual advisor. He also organized schools and would publish text books. He was appointed as the Bishop of Montalto and received episcopal consecration on 15 August 1770. It was Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Albani who consecrated him. He was a friend of the future saint Paul of the Cross who predicted that Marcucci would be canonized. As the head of his diocese it was Marcucci who would visit the parishes and would hold retreats for the priests. He was appointed as the Titular Patriarch of Constantinople in 1781 and also served as both the confessor and the advisor to Pope Clement XIV. He died in 1798. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francesco Antonio Marcucci」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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