"FRATRES IN ITINERE": DIPLOMAZIA E MISSIONE DEI FRATI FRANCESCANI NEL CATHAY: L'esemplarità di Odorico da Pordenone
In 2018, the 700th anniversary of the journey of Friar Odoric of Pordenone OMin was celebrated. On returning to the friary of St. Anthony in Padua in 1330, he left a verbal report of the journey with friar William of Solagna, by clear instruction of the Minister Provincial Friar Guidotto of Bassano....
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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[2019]
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Miscellanea francescana
Year: 2019, Volume: 119, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 161-174 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages KBM Asia KCA Monasticism; religious orders KDB Roman Catholic Church RJ Mission; missiology |
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John of Pian de Carpine OMin
B China: papal diplomatic relations B Giovanni da Montecorvino B Mongols B Franciscan missions in Cathay B John of Montecorvino B Odorico da Pordenone OMin B missioni francescane nel Cathay B Mongoli B Odoric of Pordenone OMin B Giovanni da Pian del Carpine OMin B Cina: relazioni diplomatichepapali |
| Summary: | In 2018, the 700th anniversary of the journey of Friar Odoric of Pordenone OMin was celebrated. On returning to the friary of St. Anthony in Padua in 1330, he left a verbal report of the journey with friar William of Solagna, by clear instruction of the Minister Provincial Friar Guidotto of Bassano. The transcript is one of the most fortunate and well-known accounts of travel in the Middle Ages, alongside the more famous one of Marco Polo concerning his journey made between 1271 and 1295. It is known that Odoric's report was able to reach the Avignon papal court, branching out from this into a series of further copies in several languages, which made a critical edition of the text possible only in recent times (2016). The contribution offers the essential documents of Odoric's biography and the collection of miracles, and how he became an object of devotion from the moment of death. Although, as a result of various events, a formal canonization process was never opened. Today we have a critical edition of the life and miracles, curated by Andrea Tilatti in 2004, along with the details of the examination carried out on his body in 2002, preserved in a marble sarcophagus in the church of Carmine (Our Lady of Mount Carmel) in Udine, which was transferred from the church of Saint Francis after the suppression of the friary. The Odoric reference is read in the broader framework of diplomatic relations that the Apostolic See sought, as early as the middle of the thirteenth century, to establish with the Mongolian Tartars, who had reached Europe's borders with rapid and violent raids. There were numerous missions, on the part of the French sovereign Saint Louis IX as well as the one entrusted to Brother William of Rubruck OMin, both papal-entrusted to the Friars Preachers and to the Friars Minor, accomplished by friar John of Pian de Carpine, who left us an important Historia Mongalorum; the mission continued later in the second half of the thirteenth century by friar John of Montecorvino who entered into cordial relations with the Mongol court, to the point of constituting a consolidated Catholic presence in the Chinese territories, with the relavant hierarchy. The account of Odoric must be read in the global framework of relations that bind the Franciscan world with the Chinese one, particularly in that phase of consolidating a Catholic presence followed for thirty-five years by John of Montecorvino († 1328) consecrated bishop of Khanbaliq and "patriarch of the Orient". Projects were dissolved in favour of Catholics, when the Mongol dynasty was overturned by the Chinese Ming dynasty, which closed all relations with the West until the 16th century. (English) |
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| ISSN: | 0026-587X |
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