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Today (26. July) is the feast day of:
Ugo degli Atti (Bl.; d. ca. 1270). U. (in Latin, Ugo de Actis) is also known from his place of birth as Ugo of Serra San Quirico. A scion of the leading comital family from the part of the pre-Appennine uplands of today's Ancona province of the Marche that includes both Serra San Quirico and Sassoferrato, he was the brother of Bl. Giuseppe degli Atti (de Actis; of Serra San Quirico; 25. August). After some study at Bologna, U. entered the nascent Silvestrine Benedictine congregation at its monastery of San Giovanni at Sassoferrato, where he was welcomed by the congregation's founder, St. Silvestro Guzzolini (26. November), on whom -- on the off-chance that he's unfamiliar -- there's a Saints of the Day notice from 2006 at:
http://tinyurl.com/2m6yrw
According to his late medieval Vita (BHL 4033b, 4033c), U. was known in his lifetime both for his preaching and for works of charity. He died on this day at Serra San Quirico but his remains were returned to Sassoferrato for burial in his monastery's church of San Giovanni Battista. U. was beatified in 1756. He is co-patron of Serra San Quirico (where, as also among the Silvestrines as a whole, he is celebrated tomorrow, 27. July) and patron "saint" of Sassoferrato, where he now reposes in the originally fifteenth-century church of Santa Maria del Ponte del Piano, whose Early Modern facade and belltower may be seen here just past Sassoferrato's bridge over the Sentino:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10471154@N02/893775069/
(click on ALL SIZES to enlarge).
For further reading:
Réginald Grégoire, ed., _Agiografia silvestrina medievale_ (Fabriano: Editiones Montisfani, 1983).
Giuseppe Menghini, _ La chiesa di Santa Maria del Ponte del Piano e i suoi monasteri Silverstrini di Sassoferrato_, 2d ed. (Sassoferrato: Archeo-Club di Sassoferrato, 1988; 231 pp.).
Vincenzo Fattorini, _Il beato Ugo degli Atti_ (Montefano: Monastero San Silvestro Abate, 1988; 62 pp.).
While we're here, a brief look at the facade of Sassoferrato's thirteenth-century chiesa di San Francesco (1245):
http://tinyurl.com/3a33or
Best,
John Dillon
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