The Augustine was born in Taranaki (Rieti) around 1240. After studying law at the University of Bologna, he worked at the Registry of the kingdom of Sicily at the court of Manfred. King died in the battle of Benevento (1266), and he himself wounded and sick, decided to change his life. Leaving Sicily, went to the hermitage of Rosia, near Siena, professing as a simple lay brother with the name of Augustine. It is said that during his defense of the rights of the monastery was discovered his true identity.
When then-General of the Augustinian Order from Osimo Clement knew his talents and his virtues, I moved to Rome, where Augustine, said, "Agostino Novello", received the priesthood. Shortly after he was appointed Apostolic Penitentiary by Nicholas IV, and his confessor, who carried out functions for almost 10 years, even under the pontificates of Pope Celestine V and Boniface VIII. During the same period he collaborated in the drafting of the Constitutions of ratisbonensi 1290.
The Chapter meeting in Milan in 1298 for the celebration of Comizi General, in his absence and without even knowing its opinion, the major superior of the Order and elected Boniface VIII confirmed it "without any examination." Humbly accepted the assignment, although reduced to two years, as called in advance to the Chapter in which he renounced generalship. The voters could not change his mind. He ruled with great humanity and justice, by enacting appropriate provisions.
The most prestigious Legislator of the Order, during his training, he spent the last years of life in the hermitage of St. Leonardo al Lago, near Lecceto (Siena), "resting in the shade of Divine contemplation", totally dedicated to prayer and works of charity.
He died in 1309. His body was moved to the church of St. Agostino di Siena, where he represented was blessed with an angel behind the head - "the angel whispered" will become a constant iconographic - a symbol of divine inspiration. Recently, his body was transferred to Termini Imerese in Sicily.
In 1759 Clement XIII approved the devotion beatified. The Augustinian Order commemorates them on May 19 together with that of b. Clement of Osimo. Oring Menabuoi, daughter of humble parents, was born in San Miniato between 1237 and 1240. Lover of purity since childhood, he tried to keep the white mind and heart, devoting herself to small works of mercy. He lived his detachment from the world especially through prayer, especially when as a shepherdess, alone in the fields, he felt "the breath of God" and took care of the flock. She lost her mother, was mistreated by his brothers, who wanted to force her to settle down against her will. He ran away from her and then moved to the nearby city of Lucca, where for seven years, earned a living by working as a maid. There, often gathering in prayer in the solitude of an attic spent the early years of his maturity.
Around 1265, after being on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Michael Gargano, stopped in Rome at the service of a noble and pious widow named Margaret, who soon stood admired by his virtues. It was during this period, for examples of Christian charity which she continually offered, began to be called Christian.
Lying to Assisi to venerate the tomb of Margaret S. Francis, "the Lord showed her in a vision, a house built in a place and in a manner in which she then built the monastery of St. Cross ". Returning to his native country willing to put into practice the ideal of religious life that had flourished in the soul, after passing understandable obstacles of all kinds, in 1279 he obtained a house by the City, "in which she could live and others that to join in serving the Lord. " Gave way to the beginning of the monastery of St. Maria Novella and S. Michael, first as a prison, a Franciscan, later under the rule of St. Augustine, who in 1296 was the final canonical recognition. The previous year the Augustinian General Chapter held in Siena, "in consideration of the love that brought the religious Order," had already been admitted to the participation of all spiritual goods. Blessed with extraordinary gifts and charisms as the discernment of spirits, and distinguished for her humility, purity of life and love to all, devoted to the Immaculate Conception of Mary, died in 1310 after three years of unspeakable suffering. She was buried in the church of the monastery that she had managed to become a prestigious center of spirituality.
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