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Paul of the Cross, Saint
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Paul of the Cross, Saint, 1694–1775, Italian, religious founder of the Passionists. His original name was Paolo Francesco Danei. He had visions calling him to found a new order and received papal permission in 1725. He was ordained in 1727. His order, intended to revive Christian life by emphasis on the Passion, is vigorous and widespread. Feast: Apr. 28.

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If I have to choose among saints, I prefer Aquinas over Paul of the Cross and Mother Teresa.
God & suffering by Commonweal
How, for instance, would de Certeau account for an Alphonsus de Liguori whose biography is reviewed above or Paul of the Cross or other such ecstatic founders/reformers of the eighteenth century who were long distant from the salons of Paris?
The Mystic Fable, vol 1: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
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