Key Zaccarian March dates

March 4
1536 - Election of the First Prioress of the Angelic Sisters, Mother Battista da Sesto, sister of Fr. Dionigi da Sesto. Angelic Paola Antonia Negri is named the fisrt Novice Mistress.
1879 – The Angelics are refounded in Lodi. They had been suppressed by Napoleonic Law in 1810. The last Angelic, Sr. Maria Teresa Trotti Bentivoglio had died in 1846.

March 5
1740 – Death of Fr. Gennaro Maffetti who promoted in the parish church of San Carlo ai Catinari, Rome, Italy, the devotion to Our Lady, Mother of Divine Providence by displaying in the Church a copy of Scipione Pulzone da Gaeta’s famous portrait patinted by Br. Pietro Valentini.

March 14
1620 – death of Ven Cosimo Dossena who fought at the 1571 Battle of Leapanto and was later Superior General of the Barnabites and Bishop of Tortona.
1621 – death of Fr. Giovanni Antonio Gabuzio, first historian of the Order.March 15
1931 – Death of Servant of God Giovanni Semeria, apologist, Chaplain to the Supreme Military Commander of Italy in World War I. Cofounder, with Fr. Giovanni Minozzi of the Opera nazionale per gli orfani del Mezzogiorno d’Italia (1919), a charitable work founded originally to take care of the war orphans, so numerous in Italy.
1961 – Death of Fr. Francesco Castelnuovo, revered spiritual director and formator.

March 19
1822 – death of Cardinal Francesco Fontana, Barnabite, who is considered the second Founder of the Order because of his tireless efforts to gather together and revive the Congregation after the devastating effects of the Napoleonic Suppression. He researched and prepared documentation necessary for the reintroduction of the Cause for Canonization of the Founder.

March 24
1990 - A new altar was dedicated in the Church of San Barnaba in Milan. This church, from which the name “Barnabite” is derived, has long been the site of the tomb of the Holy Founder. In this renovation the Fathers removed the Founder’s relics from the crypt below to enshrine them under this new main altar.

March 27
The Third Order of the Barnabites, founded by Fr. Luigi Ferrari was approved by the Cardinal of Paris.