Optional Memorial
Saint Bernardine of Siena
- Feast day
- May 20
- Patron of
- advertisers and communications
- Origin
- Italian
Life
Bernardine of Siena was a Franciscan friar and the greatest Italian preacher of the fifteenth century. He popularized devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus, displaying the IHS monogram throughout Italy.
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