48 Facts About Alexander Sauli

Alexander Sauli, B was an Italian priest who is called the "Apostle of Corsica".

Alexander Sauli is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.

Alexander Sauli was beatified by Benedict XIV, 23 April 1742, and canonized by Pope Pius X, 11 December 1904.

Alexander Sauli's father was Marquis of Pozzuolo in the territory of Tortona and an assistant to Duke Francesco II Sforza.

In 1551, at the age of 17, Alexander Sauli became a page at the court of Emperor Charles V in Milan.

At the age of seventeen, Alexander Sauli asked to be admitted to the Congregation of the Barnabites.

The Fathers advised Alexander Sauli to consider other religious congregations, such as the Dominicans, the Franciscans, and the Capuchins, rich with members outstanding in holiness and wisdom.

Alexander Sauli erected the cross on it, and with great fervor he addressed the crowd about the worship of God and the love of neighbor.

At a subsequent Chapter Alexander Sauli was criticized for ineptitude in his work in the sacristy, his bourgeois attitude, his lukewarmness, and many other things.

Since Alexander Sauli was very familiar with the city and the university, he was assigned there as a preacher, and was joined by his two Masters, Besozzi and Omodei.

Alexander Sauli dedicated himself to pastoral work and encouraged frequent communion and the Forty Hours devotion, He founded schools for religious instructions, offered the people lectures on the Letters of St Paul, and organized groups at the university.

Alexander Sauli gave ample space to disputes, knowing how well the students would prepare themselves, thereby acquiring self-confidence while clarifying the ideas they were presenting.

How innovative Alexander Sauli was is shown by the subsidiary subjects that he introduced, such as geometry which "makes the heart attentive and orderly", and law, so that the students could protect themselves in a world engulfed in never ending legal battles.

Alexander Sauli was entrusted with teaching in church the Epistles of St Paul.

Alexander Sauli attracted a vast audience, including noted preachers of the day, but Sauli did not follow the career of the pulpit.

Alexander Sauli published all of them anonymously, but in the second edition De Rossi revealed the name of the true author.

Two years later Sauli was his mentor in Bonfanti's public defense of his 200 philosophical and theological theses, which Bonfanti dedicated to Alexander's father, Dominic Sauli, who, from his house in Pavia, was following with great pride his son's progress.

Alexander Sauli immediately contested the claim and the validity of the documents, since Gritti's uncle had donated the church and the house to the Barnabites at the time of Pope Paul III.

Alexander Sauli entrusted the case into the hands of Charles Borromeo, the Archbishop of Milan, who obtained from Pope Pius IV the resolution of the case.

Alexander Sauli wrote rules for the novices and gave guidelines for the curriculum of sacred and profane studies, and for preaching.

Alexander Sauli was in charge of the monastery of the Angelic Sisters of St Paul, and of the "Submitted to the Crucified Lord," to whom he gave regular conferences, and with whom he kept regular correspondence even from Corsica.

Alexander Sauli did not accept those conditions, but in deference to the bishop, he sent over Fr.

Alexander Sauli's term as Superior General was a period of true renewal for the Order, renewal to be carried out fully by St Charles.

Alexander Sauli is regarded as the "second Founder" because he gave new vigor to the Order.

Alexander Sauli was invited by Charles Borromeo to preach at the cathedral in Milan, where he made a great impression on both Borromeo and the future Pope Gregory XIV.

Alexander Sauli participated in the first synod of the Archdiocese of Milan and in the first Provincial Council was entrusted with various tasks by Borromeo.

Alexander Sauli immediately noticed his prudence and common sense, such as when he wanted to reduce the grate of the Monastery of St Martha.

Alexander Sauli showed a great balance in his judgment and decision making passing over secondary items to reach the core of the issue.

Alexander Sauli answered: "To humble yourself and reflect if God has allowed it in punishment for some of your defects," and then frankly questioned him if he was ready to face God's judgment.

In 1568, during the long stay of Borromeo in Mantua, and while the Vicar General, Castelli, was hiding in St Barnabas, Alexander Sauli was to all practical purposes the administrator of the archdiocese, as proved from the long list of practical decisions taken by him as shown in the correspondence between the two.

Alexander Sauli opposed this because the union would have been an endless source of internal conflict.

Alexander Sauli went to the Carthusian abbey in Carignano for a retreat.

Alexander Sauli was consecrated bishop by his friend, Cardinal Borromeo of Milan, with Ippolito de Rossi, Bishop of Pavia, and Federico Comer, Bishop of Bergamo, as concelebrants.

Alexander Sauli ate with them, talked with each one of them, and was generous in his charity.

Alexander Sauli founded a seminary in Bastia, and he dedicated himself to all, in spite of his sickness, like malaria and high fever, which few times brought him to the point of death.

Alexander Sauli transferred his see to escape the malaria-ridden swamplands around Aleria to Cervione, where, in 1578, he built the Cathedrale St-Erasme.

The letter they sent to the Pope is a long list of warm praises and Alexander Sauli was able to stay for another seven years among the Corsicans.

Alexander Sauli corrected abuses, rebuilt churches, founded colleges and seminaries, and despite the depredations of corsairs, and the death of his comrades, he placed the Church in a flourishing condition.

Alexander Sauli's action was so contagious it generated a chain reaction in generosity throughout that day, bringing the purse to a very sizeable amount.

Alexander Sauli dedicated himself to pastoral services visiting hospitals, monasteries, and schools.

Alexander Sauli was beatified by Benedict XIV, 23 April 1742, and canonized by Pope Pius X, 11 December 1904.

Anyway, after the Holy Founder reached the glory of the altar in 1897, Alexander Sauli too reached the same honor.

Poetic moments of history and spiritual reality of St Alexander Sauli taken from the Apostolic Process.

Bishop Alexander Sauli met him one day and told him, 'Oh, Bartholomew, you will never be healed unless you pay back your debt.

Alexander Sauli tried to calm me down, telling me to take things as part of the joys of life.

Alexander Sauli did so even though he was more wet than I was.

Monsignor Alexander Sauli welcomed them warmly, but then admonished them for not acting well with their own parish priest.

Alexander Sauli told them, 'Dear children, eat because this belongs to you, not to the Bishop.