ON BLESSED RAINALDUS OF THE ORDER OF THE CROSIERS IN PICENUM.
CommentaryRainaldus, of the Order of the Crosiers in Picenum (Bl.)
Monte Olmo is an honest town, as Leander writes, in Picenum, five miles from Macerata. Here, as Ferrari testifies in the Catalogue of the Saints of Italy, Blessed Rainaldus the Confessor, of the Order of the Crosiers, The feast of Blessed Rainaldus, is held in no small honor, with a church dedicated in his name. The Crosier Brothers venerate him with the divine office in their churches on this day. Public veneration. Francis Maurolycus also mentions the same in his Martyrology. So writes Ferrari. But we do not find the name of Rainaldus in Maurolycus. Ferrari says he was unable to discover at what time he lived among mortals. The same author writes concerning him in the General Catalogue of Saints: At Monte Olmo in Picenum, of Blessed Rainaldus of the Order of the Crosiers. His profession. Paul Morigia treats of the most ancient origin, progress, and reform of the Order of the Crosiers in the History of Religious Orders, chapter 31, as does Sylvester Maurolycus in the Ocean of Religious Orders, book 1, where he relates only this about Blessed Rainaldus: St. Rainaldus was also from this congregation, and St. Moricus. We shall treat of Moricus on March 30. This congregation of the Crosiers is known at this time almost only in Italy, different from the one whose monasteries exist in our Belgium, almost exclusively in the region of the Rhine and the Meuse.