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Blessed — Constantius of Fabriano

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1410 AD, Fabriano, Papal States (Bernocchi family) — February 24, 1481 AD, Ascoli Piceno, Papal States

Dominican Observant preacher; Italian late-15th-century Dominican reformer

Church of San Domenico, Ascoli Piceno, Italy — his tomb; Marchigian Catholic pilgrim destination, Italy

Feast

February 24

Canonized

Beatified December 20, 1811 by Pope Pius VII

Life

Constantius (Italian Costanzo) Bernocchi was born in 1410 at Fabriano in the Papal States. He entered the Dominican Order at the age of 15 and became one of the principal Dominican Observant preachers of the Marchigian and Umbrian region.

Constantius served as prior of the Dominican Convents of Fabriano, Perugia, and Ascoli Piceno — producing the late-15th-century Marchigian Dominican Observance under his governance.

He became famous during his lifetime for his preaching and prophetic gifts. He died at Ascoli Piceno on February 24, 1481.

Miracles & Phenomena

The late-15th-century Marchigian Dominican Observance
Bl. Constantius of Fabriano's late-15th-century ministry as prior of the Dominican Convents of Fabriano, Perugia, and Ascoli Piceno — the Dominican Observant Reform in the Marchigian region — establishes the late-15th-century Dominican-Observant Marchigian tradition.

Relics

Body
Tomb of Bl. Constantius of Fabriano
Church of San Domenico, Ascoli Piceno, Italy — his Dominican convent
His tomb at the Church of San Domenico at Ascoli Piceno survives in continuous Catholic Dominican liturgical use.

Iconography

Constantius of Fabriano preaching
The mid-15th-century Dominican Observant in Dominican black-and-white habit at the Marchigian Dominican pulpit preaching — the iconography of Catholic late-15th-century Dominican Observant tradition.

Patronages

Order of Preachers (Dominicans)Fabriano and Ascoli Piceno (Marches) and the Marchigian Catholic tradition

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The late-15th-century Marchigian Dominican Observance