The Sixteenth General: Brother Sylvester of Monteleone

43 Clement VIII presides over the General Chapter and Father Silvester of Monte Leone is elected

(43) The sixteenth General was the Venerable Father Sylvester of Monteleone from the Province of Calabria. He was elected on the 6th June 1593 in the General Chapter assembled in Rome.

His Holiness Clement VIII was at this Chapter. He heard the culpa for the whole Chapter and gave him a good penance. When the Chapter was over His Holiness imposed on the General to go immediately to visit the ultramontane Provinces.

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