Siena College - Saga Yearbook (Loudonville, NY)

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7a 0414 gamdlenaf THE MOST REVEREND EDMUND F. GIBBUNS, D.D. EWOfNMamf To his exeelleney, our beloved shepherd 0f the diocese of Albany, WhO by his festering love of Catholic education has fulfilled the divine command ltTeaeh ye, the oldest educational charter in the history of the world, to Which in apostolic succession he has fallen heir; to Whose au- tspieieus encouragement we ascribe the visible blessings of God in the foundation and growth of Siena; We, Who have grown along With the college, the Class of '41, the founding class of Siena, in respectful affection and gratitude, Ebeciicde 71114 WW

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SAINT BERNABDIN E 2 a; Siam f ARDINE was born of a noble family assa, in Siena, the eighth of Septenr ber, 1380. Left an orphan at the age of six, he was brought up by pious aunts. Distributing his patrimony in charity, at twenty-two he received the habit of the Franciscans 0n the eighth of Septem- ber, 1402. He was ordained two yearslater. In 1417, Bernardines gift of e10- quence, foretold by St. Vincent Ferret, be- came manifest and his missionary life really began at Milan, at the close of that year. His reputation and fame spread, his auditors sometimes numbering 30,000. Pius II, who as a youth had heard him, records that the saint was listened to as another Paul. Penitents, we are told, Hocke ed to confession iilike ants. He gave new impetus to devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus by urging the use of the initials IIIS. Blessed Albert 0f Sartiano bears this grand testimony to his powers: iiThis truly eminent man, Bernardine, the greatest ornament 0f the Franciscan Order, taught the people with wonderful wisdom and discernment and labored to maintain them in their good dispositions. . . . From this it is easy to conclude what must have been the results of his aposto- late for the pacification and reformation of all classes of society. A papal commission acquitted him of a Charge of heresy, so malicious and futile that Pope Martin V commended him for the very teachings claimed by his accusers to be heretical. He refused three bishoprics. He be- came Vicar-general 0f the Franciscans in 1437, but in 1442 he persuaded the Pope to accept his resignation in order that he might resume his preaching. Bernardiue died on the twentieth of May, 1444. Miracles multiplied after his death and he was canonized by Pope Nicholas V in 1450.