Bienheureux André Grego de Peschiera
Prêtre de l'Ordre de saint Dominique ( +1485)
Il était né sur les bords du lac de Garde, près de Vérone. Il fit ses études au couvent de Saint-Marc à Florence. Pendant quarante cinq ans, vivant pauvrement au milieu des pauvres, il parcourut à pied toute la vallée de la Valteline à la frontière italo-suisse. Sa prédication encourageait les populations à la vie spirituelle et son exemple accompagnait ses paroles, d'autant qu'il ne dormait qu'à même le sol et se nourrissait comme les pauvres. Son culte fut confirmé en 1820 .
À Morbegno dans la Valteline, en 1485, le bienheureux André Grego de Peschiera,
prêtre de l'Ordre des Prêcheurs, qui parcourut longtemps à pied cette région,
vivant de peu, passant la nuit avec les pauvres, dormant sur des sarments et
gagnant fraternellement le cœur de tous.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/5208/Bienheureux-Andre-Grego-de-Peschiera.html
Blessed Andrés de Peschiera
Grego
Also known as
Andrés Gregho
Andrés of Peschiera
Andrew…
Apostle of the Valtellina
formerly 19
January
Profile
Raised in a pious family, Andrés grew up on the shore
of Lake Garda in Italy.
He early felt a desire to become a hermit,
and tried living in monastic style
at his father‘s
home. When his father died,
the 15 year old Andrew joined the Dominicans at
the priory at Brescia, Italy. Studied at
the San Marco monastery in Florence, Italy with Saint Antoninus
of Florence, Blessed Lawrence
of Riprafratta, Blessed Constantius
of Fabriano, and Blessed Antony
della Chiesa. Priest. Travelling preacher in
the Valtellina region of Italy,
and the areas of Switzerland where
the Albigensian heresy had
taken root; he worked in the area for 45 years, travelling the
mountains on foot, staying with the poor,
staying where he could, hiding from bandits and heretics,
living off whatever came to hand. Among the parishes, churches, hospitals, schools, orphanages and monasteries he
founded was the convent at Morbegno, Italy which
became a base of operations for Dominicans trying
to bring the people back to orthodox Christianity,
and where Andrés retired to spend his final years as a prayerful monk.
Born
1400 in Peschiera
del Garda, Italy
18
January 1485 in
the Dominican convent at Morbegno, Sondrio, Lombardy, Italy of
natural causes
buried at
the parish church in Morbegno
miracles reported
at his tomb
the number of pilgrims who
came to it caused the friars to
relocate his relics twice,
each time to a place with easier access
26
September 1820 by Pope Pius
VII (cultus
confirmation)
book with
a snake emerging
from the pages; it refers to a report of a miracle in
which Albegensian heretics brought
Andrés a book that
they said would explain their beliefs; he told them to open it; a serpent emerged
from the pages, the heretics saw
the error of their ways, and converted back
to orthodox Christianity
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An obedient religious is a holy religious. –
Blessed Andrés
MLA Citation
“Blessed Andrés de Peschiera Grego“. CatholicSaints.Info.
15 May 2020. Web. 7 May 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-andres-de-peschiera-grego/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/blessed-andres-de-peschiera-grego/
Short Lives of the Dominican Saints
– Blessed Andrew of Peschiera, Confessor
Article
(died A.D. 1485)
Andrew Grego was born at the beginning of the
fifteenth century at Peschiera, a small town in the diocese of Verona, on the
shores of Lake Garda in the north of Italy. Even in childhood he was remarkable
for his prayer and abstinence and he always fasted during the whole of Lent on
bread and water. He was equally admirable for his charity to the poor and his
perfect obedience to his father. Finding it impossible to carry out his ardent
wish to retire to some hermitage, he lived a mortified and religious life at
home. His brothers, however, conceived a strange hatred for him, and, as soon
as their father was dead, they began to persecute and ill-treat him. He bore
all their injuries with unalterable patience until the day he resolved to enter
the cloister. On this occasion they accompanied him to the gates of the town,
and Andrew, before taking leave of them, knelt down and humbly kissed their
feet. The only property he had taken with him out of his father’s house was a
stick, which he now returned to his brothers, declaring them heirs to
everything over which he had any claim, and begging them to keep the stick in
memory of him and never to give it away. It was laid aside in a comer of the
house, where, on occasion of his holy death, some years afterwards, it miraculously
flowered, and many prodigies were worked by its instrumentality.
Blessed Andrew received the Dominican habit in the
Convent of Brescia, and was thence sent to Saint Mark’s at Florence. Trained to
the exercises of the religious life by Blessed Anthony della Chiesa, he soon
became distinguished for perfection in every virtue. His life was one of
incessant apostolic labour amongst the Alpine regions of Northern Italy. These
districts were at that time infested by heretics who had revived the errors of
the Manichees, and Blessed Andrew, by his zeal and by the great number of souls
whom he converted, gained for himself the title of “the Apostle of the
Valteline,” i.e., the valley watered by the river Adda.
On one occasion, when he was disputing with the
heretics, they produced a large volume full of blasphemous errors against the
Catholic devotion to the Saints. Blessed Andrew bade them open the book and see
what it contained. They did so, and there issued forth an enormous viper, as
though to bear witness to the venomous poison found in those heretical pages.
He had a most tender devotion to the Passion of our
Lord, and in all the ancient pictures of him he is represented with a crucifix.
In the chapel dedicated to him at Peschiera he is depicted standing near a
crucifix, whence there issues a ray of light which pierces his heart This is
believed to refer to some miraculous favour received by Blessed Andrew whilst
contemplating the sufferings of Our Lord. On Fridays he was always accustomed
to wear a crown of sharp thorns, which he dexterously concealed under his hood.
Besides founding many orphanages and refuges for the
destitute, Blessed Andrew caused several churches and monasteries to be erected
and the number of parishes to be increased in the wild regions which were the
scene of his labours. In particular, he procured the foundation of the
celebrated Convent of Morbegno to serve as a rampart against heresy and vice;
and thither he was wont to retire from time to time in the intervals of his
apostolate to refresh his spirit by the exercises of prayer and contemplation.
Such was his humility that he would accept of no post of dignity amongst his
brethren, exercising only the humble office of going out begging for the
support of the Community.
In his apostolic work for souls, which he carried on
to an extreme old age, he fearlessly braved the dangers of glaciers,
avalanches, and precipices; nothing ever daunted his courage. His penance was
rugged and severe. His love of poverty was a passion. He laboured among the
poor; his food was the common fare of the needy, chestnuts, barley bread, and
water. He was called the “Father of the poor.”
Blessed Andrew closed his saintly life by a holy death
in the midst of his brethren at Morbegno in the year 1485. His remains have
twice been solemnly translated. He was beatified by Pius VII, A.D. 1820.
Prayer
O Lord Jesus Christ, who didst adorn Blessed Andrew,
Thy Confessor, with the apostolic spirit, grant us, in imitation of him, so to
benefit others, both by word and example, as to reap abundant fruit. Who livest
and reignest world without end. Amen.
MLA Citation
“Blessed Andrew of Peschiera, Confessor”. Short Lives of the Dominican Saints, 1900. CatholicSaints.Info.
29 March 2019. Web. 7 May 2021.
<https://catholicsaints.info/short-lives-of-the-dominican-saints-blessed-andrew-of-peschiera-confessor/>
Blessed Andrew of Peschiera
19 JANUARY 2010. Today we celebrate the feast day
(optional memorial) of Blessed Andrew of Peschiera, a fifteenth century
Dominican priest that was a missionary to heretics of his day.
Andrew Grego was born in the beginning of the fifteenth century at Peschiera,
on the shores of Lake Garda (pictured), in northern Italy. During his
childhood, Blessed Andrew was remarkable for his prayer, abstinence, charity
for the poor, and obedience to his father. Blessed Andrew, as a child, always
fasted on only bread and water during the whole of Lent. From a young age
Blessed Andrew yearned to be a hermit, but because of his youth was only able
to live at home, where he lived a mortified and religious life with his family.
Blessed Andrew's brothers, however, bore a resentment toward him and treated
him badly. After his father's death, Blessed Andrew went to join a cloister and
his brothers went with him to the city gate. At the city gate Blessed Andrew
gave them a stick he had taken from his father's house, the only thing he had
taken, and, on his knees, kissed their feet, forgave their injustices, and
renounced any inheritance that he may have. The stick was set forgotten in a
corner of the house, but on Blessed Andrew's death many years later, it bloomed
with flowers.
At the age of 15 Blessed Andrew joined the Dominican Order at the priory at
Brescia, Italy and was educated at the San Marco monastery in Florence, Italy.
For 45 years afterward, Blessed Andrew worked as a traveling preacher in
the northern Italian Alps, traveling on foot, working with the poor, hiding
from bandits and heretics, and sleeping where he could.
The area where Blessed Andrew preached was overtaken at the time by heresy and
poverty. Blessed Andrew worked tirelessly and without fear in the area
preaching against heresy and founding many orphanages and refuges for the poor.
He caused several churches and monasteries to be erected, and was so loved by
the poor that he was given the popular title, "Father of the poor."
One historical account of Blessed Andrew's preaching tells that he was engaged
in a dispute with heretics when they produced a book that contained many errors
and blasphemous statements against the Church's veneration of saints. When
Blessed Andrew asked them to open the book to see what it contained, a large
viper sprang from the book, as to bear witness to the poison in its pages.
Blessed Andrew, tradition tells, had a tender devotion to the Passion of Our
Lord, and in the ancient pictures of him (none of which appear to be
electronically available today) Blessed Andrew is usually pictured with a
crucifix. There is also historical accounts that Blessed Andrew is pictured, at
the chapel in Peschiera dedicated to him, near a crucifix, from which issues a
light that is directed at Blessed Andrew's heart. This is said to refer to some
miraculous favor that was granted to Blessed Andrew while he was contemplating
Our Lord's passion. Tradition also tells that on Fridays, Blessed Andrew wore a
crown of sharp thorns which he concealed with under the hood of his habit.
Blessed Andrew died on 18 January 1485 among his Dominican brethren at the
priory of Morbegno, Valtellina, Italy. So many miracles were reported to have
occurred at his tomb, that Blessed Andrew's mortal remains were moved twice to
allow better access for pilgrims. Blessed Andrew was beatified (cultus confirmed)
by Pope Pius VII in 1820.
Prayer
(from Short Lives of the Dominican Saints (1901))
O Lord Jesus Christ,
who didst adorn Blessed Andrew, Thy Confessor,
with the apostolic spirit,
grant us, in imitation of him,
so to benefit others, both by word and example,
as to reap abundant fruit.
Who livest and reignest world without end.
Amen.
SOURCE : http://acta-sanctorum.blogspot.com/2010/01/blessed-andrew-of-peschiera.html
Bl. Andrew Grego
of Peschiera
January 18, Blessed.
Source: willingshepherds.org
DOMENICAN PRIEST
Roman martyrology: In the convent of Morbegno
near the Italian Alps, Blessed Andrew Grego of Peschiera, a priest of the Order
of Preachers, who visited frequently, where he lived austerely with the poor
and tried to reconcile everyone fraternally (1485).
Beatification date: September 26, 1820 by Pius
VII.
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Born early 15th Century in Peschiera, Italy. As a
child, Andrew Grego lived on the southern shore of Lake Garda, in northern
Italy. His training for a life of heroic sanctity began early, with voluntary
penances and unquestioning obedience to his father. Andrew's first desire was
to be a hermit, an ambition that was met with ridicule from his brothers.
Failing to realize this hope, he made for himself a severe schedule of prayer
and penance, and, in his own house, lived the life of one wholly given to God.
After the death of his father, it became increasingly difficult to carry out
his plan, so he resolved to enter the cloister. Although his
brothers had persecuted him without mercy, he knelt and humbly begged their
prayers and forgiveness for having annoyed them. Then he gave them the only
possession he had, a walking stick. This stick, thrown carelessly in a corner
by the brothers, was forgotten until; long afterwards, it bloomed like the
legendary rod of Saint Joseph in token of Andrew's holiness.
The 15-year old received the
Dominican habit at Brescia and then were sent to San Marco in Florence. This
convent was then at its peak of glory, stamped with the saintly personalities
of Saint Antoninus and the Blessed of Lawrence of Riprafratta, Constantius, and
Antony della Chiesa. Andrew's soul caught the fire of their apostolic zeal, and
set forth on his mission in the mountains of northern Italy.
Heresy and poverty had combined to
draw almost this entire region from the Church. It was a country of great
physical difficulties, and, in his travels in the Alps, he risked death from
snowstorms and avalanches as often as from the daggers of the heretics.
Nevertheless, he travelled tirelessly, preaching, teaching, and building--for
his entire lifetime (45 years).
Churches, hospitals, schools, and
orphanages were built under Andrew's direction. He would retire from time to
time to these convents for periods of prayer and spiritual refreshment, so that
he could return with renewed courage and zeal to the difficult apostolate. He
was known as "the Apostle of the Valtelline," because of the district
he evangelized.
Blessed Andrew performed many
miracles. Probably his greatest miracle was his preaching, which produced such
fruits in the face of great obstacles. At one time, when he was preaching to
the people, the heretics presented him with a book in which they had written
down their beliefs. He told them to open the book and see for themselves what
their teachings amounted to. They did so, and a large viper emerged from the
book.
Blessed Andrew closed a holy life
by an equally holy death in Valtellina District (near Swiss border), Italy,
1485 and was buried in Morbegno. He had labored so long among the poor and the
neglected that his place in their hearts was secured. Because of the miracles
worked at his tomb, and the persistent devotion of the people, his relics were
twice transferred to more suitable tombs.
SOURCE : http://catholic.net/op/articles/1965/cat/1205/bl-andrew-grego-of-peschiera.html
Beato Andrea Grego da Peschiera Domenicano
Peschiera, 1400 - Morbegno, 1485
Fu
discepolo di s. Antonino nel convento di s. Marco a Firenze. Terminato il
periodo di formazione, venne inviato a predicare nella Valtellina. Qui prodigò
a favore della povera popolazione ogni sua energia e 45 anni di durissimo
ministero gli valsero l'appellativo di apostolo della Valtellina. Il segreto
del suo successo era dovuto all'esercizio eroico della penitenza, dell'umiltà e
dell'obbedienza. Ripeteva spesso: "Un religioso obbediente è un religioso
santo".
Martirologio
Romano: A Morbegno sulle Alpi in Lombardia, beato Andrea da Peschiera
Grego, sacerdote dell’Ordine dei Predicatori, che a lungo percorse a piedi
tutta la regione, vivendo sobriamente tra i poveri e conciliandosi
fraternamente gli animi di tutti.
Il Beato Andrea da Peschiera fu il vero Frate Predicatore, potente in opere e in parole, tutto consacrato al bene delle anime, infaticabile nell’evangelizzare intere popolazioni. Prese l’Abito Domenicano nel convento di Brescia, da quello passò in S. Marco di Firenze per compiervi gli studi. In questo venerabile cenobio fioriva in pieno, per opera del Beato Antonio Della Chiesa, la riforma voluta dal Beato Raimondo Da Capua, e così Andrea si formò non solo ai forti studi, ma anche alle solide virtù. Inviato nella Valtellina a difendervi la fede, minacciata dall’eresia, per 45 anni ne fu la vigile sentinella perlustrando instancabile quelle valli alpine, povero e penitente, come il suo gran Padre Domenico, compiendovi prodigi di zelo. Predicò con ardore la divina parola, confermandovi innumerevoli anime nella fede e richiamandole da tutte le vie del male. Creò nuove parrocchie, fondò monasteri, eresse, nel 1475, il celebre convento di Morbegno, che non solo contribuì al rifiorimento della vita regolare nell’Ordine, ma fu un vero baluardo contro l’eresia, vera casa della santa predicazione di cui egli fu l’anima senza voler tuttavia accettare mai nessun grado di superiorità. L’unico ufficio cui ambì, e che sempre esercitò con santa gioia, fu quello di Questuante, fedele, anche in questo, imitatore del suo glorioso Patriarca. In questa vita di penitenza, di preghiera, d’incredibili fatiche perseverò fino alla più tarda vecchiaia. Il suo corpo è ancor oggi molto venerato nella chiesa parrocchiale di Morbegno, paese dove trovò la morte il 18 gennaio 1485 nel convento da lui fondato. Papa Pio VIII il 26 settembre 1820 ha confermato il culto.
Autore: Franco Mariani
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/Detailed/90752.html
Beato Andrés de Peschiera Grego, religioso presbítero
fecha: 18 de enero
fecha en el calendario anterior: 19 de enero
n.: 1400 - †: 1485 - país: Italia
canonización: Conf. Culto: Pío VII 1820
hagiografía: «Vidas de los santos», Alban Butler
En el convento de Morbegno, en los Alpes, beato Andrés de Peschiera Grego, presbítero de la Orden de Predicadores, que andando visitó repetidas veces aquella región, donde vivió austeramente junto a los pobres y trató de conciliar fraternalmente a todos.
No poseemos muchos detalles auténticos sobre la vida del beato. Su nombre de
familia era Gregho (de origen griego). Andrés nació en Peschiera, a orillas del
Lago de Garda, y siendo muy joven, entró en la orden de Santo Domingo, en
Brescia, e hizo sus estudios en el famoso convento de San Marcos de Florencia.
Después de su ordenación, sus superiores le enviaron a evangelizar el
Valtelino, región en los confines de Italia y Suiza infestada por la herejía
albigense, en la que el pueblo era hostil a la religión.
Se conserva un atractivo relato de la incansable labor del misionero entre ese
pueblo rebelde, de su tierna devoción a la Pasión de Cristo, de la austeridad
de su vida y de su espíritu de humildad y pobreza. Algunos de los milagros que
se le atribuyen son muy extravagantes; así, por ejemplo: cuando los herejes se
presentaron con un libro para refutarle, el beato les dijo que lo abriesen y de
él salió «una enorme serpiente», como símbolo del veneno que el libro contenía.
El beato Andrés fundó en Morbegno un convento de su orden, como puesto de
avanzada entre los herejes, y allí murió el 18 de enero de 1485. El beato pasó
cuarenta y cinco años de su vida en el Valtelino. Su culto fue confirmado en
1820.
Ver Acta Sanctorum, mayo, vol. IV, pp. 627-631; Procter, Short Lives of the
Dominican Saints, pp. 7-10.
fuente: «Vidas de los santos», Alban Butler
SOURCE : http://profesorjuanra.blogspot.com/2013/01/beato-andres-de-peschiera-grego.html
