St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria

St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria – Confessor

This famous Lombard preacher was one of that band of saints whom the Lord in the Sixteenth century sent to carry out in Italy that ecclesiastical reform which had indeed been long desire, but which the Canons of the Council of Trent alone could not effect. It was necessary that they should be put into practice with heroic zeal, and this could be done only by a saint. He founded the order of Regular Clerks who from the Church of St. Barnabas near which they lived are called “Barnabites.: They gave much assistance to St. Charles Borromeo in his work of reform. Anthony died at the age of 36, July 5, 1539. And was canonized by Poe Leo XIII.

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