Antonio Pavoni
Italian priest
Feast: 9 April (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Antonio Pavoni, OP (c. 1325 – 9 April 1374) was an Italian Catholic priest and member from the Order of Preachers. He served as an inquisitor-general for Pope Urban V in combatting Waldensians in the Lombard region, but the Waldensians succeeded in killing him in an ambush as he preached an Eastertide homily in 1374.
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- Urban V Blessed“He served as an inquisitor-general for Pope Urban V in combatting Waldensians in the Lombard region, but the Waldensians succeeded in killing him in an ambush as he preached an Eastertide homily in 1374.” — Wikipedia
- Wikidata Q3620020 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Antonio Pavoni (CC BY-SA)
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