Lexicon Capuccinum

We would like to let the brothers of the Order know that the new website of the Lexicon Capuccinum – www.lexiconcap.org – has been updated and reactivated. It will publish from time to time the entries that we have edited concerning the circumscriptions of the…

December 12, 2016

The realization of the work

The realization of the work is entrusted to a commission composed by: José Ángel Echeverría (director), Roberto Cuvato (executive secretary), Salvatore Vacca, Miguel Anxo Pena González, Jan Bernd Elpert. The General Minister, Br. Mauro Jöhri, in the Programmatic Letter 2012-2018 to the Order, wrote about…

May 28, 2014

A primary tool of investigation

This new version of the Lexicon Cappuccinum, which will come out also in print, means to offer to the friars of the Order and to researchers of Capuchin history a primary tool of investigation on: friars, personages, circumscriptions, friaries, missions, and other aspects pertaining to…

May 28, 2014

Capuchin history and spirituality

To this is added the voices on the themes ranging from Capuchin history and spirituality, entrusted to experts, to aspects of daily life (the water of friaries, Capuchin pharmacies and herbalists), thought and art (philosophy, theology, mathematics, architecture, painting, cabinet-making), to the participation in political,…

May 28, 2014

A bio-bibliographical dictionary

The Lexicon Cappuccinum, published in Latin in 1951, is a bio-bibliographical dictionary that, beyond the essential bibliography of the most illustrious Capuchins and other persons that have had a relevant influence on the Order, includes the voices of all the circumscriptions, missions, and friars extant…

May 28, 2014