I. This Notice is an extract from tome I of the com-

plete works of Father Sinistrari, Romce, I'jiZ.
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ed, were productive of the most happy results for piety. Equally endeared to the World and to Religion, he had been fa- voured by nature with the most brilliant' gifts : square frame, high stature, open countenance, broad forehead, sparkling eyes, high-coloured complexion, pleasant conversation replete with sallies of wit ' ; more valuable still, he was in possession of the gifts of grace, through which he was enabled to sustain, with unconquerable resignation, the assaults of an arthritical disease he was subject to; he was, more- o.ver, remarkable for his meekness, can- dour and absolute submission to the rules of his Order. A man of all sciences*, he had learnt foreign languages without any master, and often, in the general Meet- ings of his Order, held in Rome, he sup- ported, in public, theses de omni scibili. He, however, addicted himself more parti- cularly to the study of Civil and Canon laws. In Rome he filled the appointment of Consulter to the supreme Tribunal of the Holy-Inquisition ; was some time Vi-
1. Quadrato corpore, statura proccra, facie liberal!, fronte spaiiosa, oculis rulilantibus, colore vivido, jucun- dae coiiveraationis, ac lepidorum salium.
2. Omnium scientiarum vir.
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car general of the Archbishop of Avignon, and then Theologian attached to the Archbishop of Milan. In the year 1688, charged by the general Meeting of Fran- ciscans with the compilation of the statu- tes of the Order, he performed this task in his treatise entitled Practica criminalis Minorum illustrata. He died in the year of our Lord 1701, on the 6th of March, at the age of seventy-nine L