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48-612: Monte Senario is a Servite monastery in the comune of Vaglia , near Florence in Tuscany , in central Italy. It stands on the mountain of the same name, on the watershed between the Valdarno to the south and the Mugello to the north. It was established in 1245 by the seven founding members of the Servite order and was the first Servite monastery. Servite The order

96-553: A Mantellate herself. In 1844 the congregation was introduced into France, and from there extended into England in 1850. The sisters were the first to wear the religious habit publicly in that country after the Protestant Reformation and were active missionaries under Frederick William Faber and the Oratorians for many years. This branch occupies itself with active works. They devote themselves principally to

144-656: A new foundation was made at Brussels in 1891 and the order was introduced into England and United States , chiefly through the efforts of the Servite priests Bosio and Morini. The latter, having gone to London in 1864 as director of the affiliated Congregation of the Sisters of Compassion, obtained charge of a parish from Archbishop Manning in 1867. The work prospered and besides St. Mary's Priory in London, convents were opened at Bognor Regis (1882) and Begbroke (1886). In 1870 Morini, Ventura, Giribaldi, and Joseph Camera, at

192-574: A plan for the amalgamation of all orders which followed the Rule of St. Augustine. This was accomplished in March 1256, but about the same time a rescript was issued confirming the Servite Order as a separate body with power to elect a general. Four years later a general chapter was convened at which the order was divided into two provinces, Tuscany and Umbria, the former being governed by Manettus and

240-513: A vacant benefice but the expectation of one; and when an expectation had been sold, if another offered a larger sum for it, the pope voided the first sale. The unsympathetic observer Dietrich von Nieheim reports that he saw the same benefice sold several times in one week, and that the Pope talked business with his secretaries during Mass. There was resistance in England, the staunchest supporter of

288-534: Is also a confraternity of the Seven Dolours, branches of which may be erected in any church. The pontifical theological faculty Marianum which is now one of the leading centers of Mariology was established by the Servite Order in accord with its tradition of many centuries. In 1398 Pope Boniface IX granted the order the right to confer theological degrees. Suppressed by the Kingdom of Italy in 1870, it

336-647: The Catholic Encyclopedia reports. In England, the anti-papal preaching of John Wyclif supported the opposition of the king and the higher clergy to Boniface IX's habit of granting English benefices as they fell vacant to favorites in the Roman Curia. Boniface IX introduced a revenue known as annates perpetuæ , withholding half the first year's income of every benefice granted in the Roman Court. The pope's agents also now sold not simply

384-579: The Albigenses had been exterminated less than a century before. Their numbers spread to Spain and northern Italy. These evoked uneasy memories of the mass processions of wandering flagellants of the Black Death period, 1348–1349. They went in procession from city to city, clad in white garments, with faces hooded, and wearing on their backs a red cross, following a leader who carried a large cross. Rumors of imminent divine judgement and visions of

432-490: The Holy See . In the year 1276 Pope Innocent V in a letter to Benizi declared the order suppressed. Benizi set off for Rome to appeal the decision, but before his arrival there Innocent V had died. His successor lived only five weeks. Finally Pope John XXI , decided that the Servite Order should continue as before. It was not definitively approved until Pope Benedict XI issued the bull "Dum levamus" on 11 February 1304. Of

480-608: The Marianum theological faculty, which, on 8 December 1955 became a pontifical faculty in virtue of the decree Coelesti Honorandae Reginae of the Sacred Congregation of Seminaries and Universities under the authority of Pope Pius XII . Its particular speciality is the study of the theology and history of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of her veneration in the church. Ten Servites have been canonized by

528-564: The Protestant Reformation caused the loss of many Servite houses in Germany, but in the south of France the order met with much success. The Convent of San Marcello al Corso was founded in the city of Rome in 1369 and a second house, Santa Maria in Via , was established there in 1513. Beginning in the early part of the eighteenth century the order sustained a series of losses and confiscations from which it has yet to recover. A first blow fell upon

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576-624: The Second Vatican Council , the order renewed its Constitutions starting with its 1968 general chapter at Majadahonda , Madrid , a process which was concluded in 1987. In the same year, Prior General Michael M. Sincerny oversaw the creation of the International Union of the Servite Family (UNIFAS). The twentieth century also saw the beatification (1952) and the canonization of Friar Antonio Maria Pucci ;

624-527: The prince-electors met at Rhense on 20 August 1400 to depose Wenceslaus as King of Germany and chose in his place Rupert , Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine. In 1403 Boniface IX recognized Rupert as king. In 1398 and 1399, Boniface IX appealed to Christian Europe in favor of the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaeologus , threatened at Constantinople by Sultan Bayezid I , but there

672-694: The Catholic Church and several beatified. Several of the most distinguished Servites are here grouped under the heading of that particular subject to which they were especially devoted; the dates are those of their death. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Servants of Mary (Order of Servites)". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company. Pope Boniface IX Pope Boniface IX ( Latin : Bonifatius IX ; Italian : Bonifacio IX ; c. 1350 – 1 October 1404, born Pietro Tomacelli )

720-515: The French cardinals quickly elected a successor on 28 September: Cardinal Pedro de Luna, who took the name Benedict XIII . Over the next few years, Boniface IX was entreated to abdicate, even by his strongest supporters: King Richard II of England (in 1396), the Diet of Frankfurt (in 1397), and King Wenceslaus of Germany (at Reims, 1398). He refused. Pressure for an ecumenical council also grew as

768-740: The Roman papacy during the Schism : the English Parliament confirmed and extended the statutes of Provisors and Praemunire of Edward III , giving the king veto power over papal appointments in England. Boniface IX was defeated in the face of a unified front, and the long controversy was finally settled to the English king's satisfaction. Nevertheless, at the Synod of London (1396), the English bishops convened to condemn Wyclif . In Germany,

816-686: The Servite Order has spread throughout the world, including all of Europe, parts of Africa, Australia, the Americas, India, and the Philippines. The general headquarters of the Servite Order is in Rome, while many provinces and motherhouses represent the order throughout the world. Allegations of sexual assault on children by members of the Servite order surfaced in several jurisdictions in court filings, accompanied by demands for more transparency. In common with all religious orders strictly so called,

864-610: The Servites make solemn vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience . The particular object of the order is to sanctify first its own members, and then all men through devotion to the Mother of God, especially in her desolation during the Passion of her Divine Son. All offices in the order are elective and continue for three years, except that of general and assistant-generals which are for six years. The Servites give missions, have

912-672: The Virgin Mary abounded. They sang the newly popular hymn Stabat Mater during their processions. For a while, as the White Penitents approached Rome, gaining adherents along the way, Boniface IX and the Curia supported their penitential enthusiasm, but when they reached Rome, Boniface IX had their leader burnt at the stake, and they soon dispersed. "Boniface IX gradually discountenanced these wandering crowds, an easy prey of agitators and conspirators, and finally dissolved them", as

960-540: The bridges also, and for long seasons he was forced to live in more peaceful surroundings at Assisi or Perugia . He also took over the port of Ostia from its Cardinal Bishop . In the Papal States , Boniface IX gradually regained control of the chief castles and cities, and he re-founded the States as they would appear during the fifteenth century. The antipope Clement VII died at Avignon on 16 September 1394, but

1008-601: The canonization of Clelia Barbieri (d. 1870), foundress of the Minime dell’Addolorata; the beatification in 1999 of Ferdinando Maria Baccilieri of the Servite Secular Order; the beatification in 2001 of Maria Guadalupe Ricart Olmos , a Spanish cloistered nun who was martyred during the Spanish Civil War ; and the beatification of Cecelia Eusepi of the Servite Secular Order. Through the centuries,

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1056-556: The care of souls, or teach in higher institutions of learning. The Rosary of the Seven Sorrows is one of their devotions, as is also the Via Matris . Canonized Servite saints are: Philip Benizi (feast day on 23 August), Peregrine Laziosi (4 May), Juliana Falconieri (19 June). The seven founders of the order were canonized in 1888, and have a common feast day on 17 February. The date first assigned to this feast day

1104-523: The city itself. Boniface IX saw to it that Ladislaus was crowned King of Naples at Gaeta on 29 May 1390 and worked with him for the next decade to expel the Angevin forces from southern Italy. During his reign, Boniface IX finally extinguished the troublesome independence of the commune of Rome and established temporal control, though it required fortifying not only the Castel Sant'Angelo , but

1152-422: The costs of modern warfare rose and supporters needed to be encouraged by gifts, for fourteenth-century government depended upon such personal support as a temporal ruler could gather and retain. All the princes of the late 14th century were accused of avaricious money-grubbing by contemporary critics, but among them contemporaries ranked Boniface IX as exceptional. Traffic in benefices, the sale of dispensations, and

1200-526: The dioceses of Sioux City , Omaha , Charlotte NC , and Chicago . The Congregation first arrived in Africa in 1922. The Secular Order of the Servants of Mary (Servite Secular Order) is an approved Catholic organization of lay men and women plus diocesan priests living their Christian faith in the context of the world. They strive toward holiness according to the spirituality of the Servite Order, following

1248-645: The directives of their Rule of Life. Secular Servites are asked to do the following each day: live the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and love; pray and try to read Sacred Scripture each day, and/or the Liturgy of the Hours; and practice acts of reverence for the Mother of God daily, especially by praying the Servite prayer "The Vigil of Our Lady" and/or the Servite Rosary of the Seven Sorrows of Mary. There

1296-517: The education of youth, managing academies and taking charge of parochial schools. They also undertake works of mercy, such as the care of orphans, visiting the sick, and instructing converts. Organized into a number of religious congregations, some of pontifical and some of diocesan right, they have houses in Italy, France, Spain, England, and Canada . In the United States they are to be found in

1344-572: The first order of men are the cloistered nuns of the second order , which originated with converts of Philip Benizi . These nuns currently have convents in Spain, Italy, England, the Tyrol, and Germany. The Mantellate Sisters are a third order of religious women founded by Juliana Falconieri , to whom Benizi gave the habit in 1284. From Italy it spread into other countries of Europe. Anna Juliana, Archduchess of Austria, founded several houses and became

1392-594: The flourishing Province of Narbonne , which was almost totally destroyed by the plague which swept Marseilles in 1720. Thanks to secularizing inroads made by the Enlightenment , in 1783 the Servites were expelled from Prague and in 1785 the Emperor Joseph II desecrated the shrine of Maria Waldrast . The French Revolution and ensuing hostilities throughout western Europe caused widespread losses. Ten houses were suppressed in Spain in 1835. After

1440-631: The following decades. Already in the thirteenth century there were houses of the order in Germany , France , and Spain . By the early years of the fourteenth century the order had more than one hundred houses in locations including Hungary , Bohemia , Austria , Poland , and what later became Belgium . In subsequent periods came missions in Crete , the Philippines (St. Peregrine-Philippine Vicariate), and India . The disturbances which arose during

1488-401: The fourteen cardinals who remained faithful to the papacy at Rome, Clement VII at Avignon had just crowned a French prince, Louis II of Anjou , as king of Naples. The youthful Ladislaus was the son of King Charles III of Naples , assassinated in 1386, and Margaret of Durazzo , scion of a line that had traditionally supported the popes in their struggles in Rome with the anti-papal party in

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1536-598: The group as a religious order sometime between 1240 and 1247. The Servites, like other new orders before them such as the Trinitarians and the Dominicans , decided to live by the ancient Rule of St. Augustine , and added to the rule further guidelines that were the expression of their own Marian devotion and dedication. By 1250 a number of Servites had been ordained to the priesthood, thus creating an order with priests as well as brothers. Pope Alexander IV favored

1584-542: The jubilee", as indulgences were called, but the preaching of indulgences led to abuses and scandal. The jubilee of 1400 drew to Rome great crowds of pilgrims , particularly from France, in spite of a disastrous plague. Pope Boniface IX remained in the city nonetheless. In the latter part of 1399 there arose bands of flagellants , known as the Bianchi , or Albati (" White Penitents "), especially in Provence , where

1632-445: The latter by Sostene. Within five years two new provinces were added, that of Romagna and that of Lombardy. Philip Benizi was elected general on 5 June 1267, and afterwards became the great propagator of the order. The Second Council of Lyons in 1274 put into execution the ordinance of the 1215 Fourth Lateran Council , forbidding the foundation of new religious orders , and suppressed all mendicant institutions not yet approved by

1680-419: The like, did not cover the loss of local sources of revenue in the long absence of the papacy from Rome, foreign revenue diminished by the schism, expenses for the pacification and fortification of Rome, the constant wars made necessary by French ambition and the piecemeal reconquest of the Papal States . Boniface IX certainly provided generously for his mother, his brothers Andrea and Giovanni, and his nephews in

1728-471: The only way to breach the Western Schism , but the conciliar movement made no headway during Boniface's papacy. During the reign of Boniface IX two jubilees were celebrated at Rome. The first, in 1390, had been declared by his predecessor, Urban VI , and was largely frequented by people from Germany, Hungary, Poland , Bohemia , and England. Several cities of Germany obtained the "privileges of

1776-563: The order dedicated themselves to Mary under her title of Mother of Sorrows ( Italian : Madonna Addolorata ). Dedicating their devotion to the mother of Jesus, they adopted Mary's virtues of hospitality and compassion as the order's hallmarks. The distinctive spirit of the order is the sanctification of its members by meditation on the Passion of Jesus and the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and spreading abroad this devotion. The Bishop of Florence , Ardengo Trotti (Ardengo Dei Foraboschi), approved

1824-826: The refoundations in Hungary ( Eger ) and the Czech Republic . In the United States there is currently one province of friars with headquarters in Chicago. There are four provinces of sisters with motherhouses in Wisconsin, Nebraska, and two in Illinois. Pope Pius XII , through the Congregation of Seminaries and Universities, elevated the Marianum to a pontifical theological faculty on 30 November 1950. After

1872-1260: The request of Bishop Joseph Melcher of Green Bay , Wisconsin , took up a mission in America, at Neenah . Morini founded at Chicago (1874) the monastery of Our Lady of Sorrows . A novitiate was opened at Granville, Wisconsin in 1892 and an American province was formally established in 1908. The order continued to expand geographically throughout the twentieth century, taking responsibility for missions in Swaziland in 1913, Acre in Brazil in 1919, Aisén in Chile in 1937, and Zululand in South Africa . It also made foundations in Argentina from 1914 and more solidly since 1921; Transvaal in South Africa from 1935, Uruguay in 1939, Bolivia in 1946, Mexico in 1948, Australia in 1951, Venezuela in 1952, Colombia in 1953, India in 1974, Mozambique in 1984, Philippines in 1985, Uganda , Albania in 1993, and also

1920-587: The saddest chapters in the history of the Church. Neither pope had the magnanimity to put an end to the terrible state of affairs" by resigning. After his election at the papal conclave of 1389, Germany , England , Hungary , Poland , and the greater part of Italy accepted him as pope. The remainder of Europe recognized the Avignon Pope Clement VII . He and Boniface mutually excommunicated each other. The day before Tomacelli's election by

1968-583: The seizure of Rome under the Italian Risorgimento in 1870, the government of Italy closed the Servite house of studies in the city, along with many other papal institutions. The institute was re-founded as the College of Sant Alessio Falcioneri in 1895. After a gap of 25 years, in 1895 the house of studies in Rome was re-founded as the College of Sant Alessio Falcioneri. This development went hand in hand at this period with other initiatives and

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2016-413: The seven founders, Alexis alone lived to see their foundation raised to the permanent dignity of an order. He died in 1310. On 30 January 1398 Pope Boniface IX granted the Servites the power to confer theological degrees. It was in harmony with the tradition thus established that many centuries later the order established the Marianum faculty in Rome. The new foundation enjoyed considerable growth in

2064-528: Was 11 February, the anniversary of the canonical approval of the order in 1304. Since in 1907 this date was assigned to the celebration of Our Lady of Lourdes , the feast day of the Seven Holy Founders was moved to 12 February. The date was changed again in 1969 to accord more closely with liturgical tradition, to a date which marks the anniversary of the death of one of them, Alexis Falconieri , which occurred on 17 February 1310. Connected with

2112-653: Was a descendant of Tamaso Cybo, who belonged to an influential noble family from Genoa and settled in Casarano in the Kingdom of Naples . An unsympathetic German contemporary source, Dietrich of Nieheim , asserted that he was illiterate ( nesciens scribere etiam male cantabat ). Neither a trained theologian nor skilled in the business of the Curia , he was tactful and prudent in a difficult era, but Ludwig Pastor , who passes swiftly over his pontificate , says, "The numerous endeavours for unity made during this period form one of

2160-991: Was founded in 1233 by "the seven holy founders" , each a member of a patrician family of Florence, Italy. These cloth merchants left their city, families, and professions and withdrew to Monte Senario , a mountain outside the city of Florence, for a life of poverty and penance. The seven were: Bonfilius of Florence, born Bonfilius Monaldi (Buonfiglio dei Monaldi); Alexis of Florence, born Alexis Falconieri ( Italian : Alessio Falconieri ) (1200 – 17 February 1310); Manettus of Florence, born Benedict dell'Antella (Benedetto dell' Antella); Amideus of Florence , born Bartholemew Amidei (died 1266) (also known as Bartolomeo degli Amidei); Hugh of Florence , born Ricovero Uguccioni (Hugh dei Lippi Uggucioni (Ricovero dei Lippi-Ugguccioni)); Sostene of Florence, born Gerardino Sostegni (Gherardino di Sostegno); and Buonagiunta of Florence, born John Manetti (Giovanni di Buonagiunta (Bonajuncta)). They were canonized by Pope Leo XIII on 15 January 1888. The members of

2208-807: Was head of the Catholic Church from 2 November 1389 to his death, in October 1404. He was the second Roman pope during the Western Schism . In this time, the Avignon claimants, Clement VII and Benedict XIII , maintained the Roman Curia in Avignon , under the protection of the French monarchy. He is the last pope to date to take on the pontifical name "Boniface". Boniface IX was born c. 1350 in Naples . Piero (also Perino, Pietro) Cybo Tomacelli

2256-418: Was little enthusiasm for a new crusade at such a time. Saint Bridget of Sweden was canonized by Pope Boniface IX on 7 October 1391. The universities of Ferrara (1391) and Fermo (1398) owe him their origin, and that of Erfurt (in Germany), its confirmation (1392). Boniface IX died in 1404 after a brief illness. Boniface IX was a frank politician, strapped for cash like the other princes of Europe, as

2304-431: Was reopened in 1895 under the name of Sant'Alessio Falconeri. In 1939 the Servite priest Gabriel Roschini founded the journal Marianum and directed it for its first thirty years, establishing it as a respected international specialist journal which is still successfully published by the Marianum theological faculty. In 1950 Roschini was also instrumental in the reorganization of the Servite house of studies in Rome as

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