On Thu, 20 May 1999, CA Muessig wrote:
> Bernardino of Siena, Franciscan (1444): Among preachers a mega-star.
> Bernardino made several preaching tours throughout the whole of Italy,
> with the exception of the Kingdom of Naples. He travelled always on foot
> and would sometimes preach non-stop for three or four hours. In large
> cities he had to speak from an open-air pulpit because no church could
> hold the multitudes who came to hear him. He preached penance and
> cultivated the devotion of the holy name. At the end of every sermon he
> would hold up a tablet inscribed with the letters I.H.S. surrounded by
> rays of light, and urge people to implore God's mercy and to live in
> peace.
Was he not also a strongly anti-Jewish preacher, hostile to usury and a
proponent of the mons pietatis - state sponsored loan societies for the
socially modest? John Mundy
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