Rosmini
ANTONIO ROSMINI- SERBATI, an Italian philosopher; born of noble family at Roveredo in the Italian Tyrol, March 25, 1797. After a stainless youth of devotion and study, he decided for the priesthood against his parents' wishes, and began the course at Padua in 1817. Three years later his father's death gave him an ample estate. He was ordained priest in 1821, and devoted the next five years at home to study, meditation and prayer. He formed a comprehensive and coherent system to serve as a basis for the truths of revelation, and planned a new institution for the training of teachers and priests in wisdom and holiness. From 1826 to 1828 he lived mostly in Milan, next thought out the rule of his new order in a period of retirement and severe mortification at Domodossola in the Piedmontese Alps, visited Rome, gained the approval of Pius VIII. both for his special studies and for the institution of his order, and published his "New Essay on the Origin of Ideas" (4 vols. 1830), which at once carried his name over the Catholic world. He identified himself with rational movements ciety which became known to the public and lost power with the Pope. His works filled 35 volumes and they were placed on the Index in 1849. Rosmini retired to Stresa, where he died in 1855. early in the 17th century, and was alleged to have been founded by a German noble called Christian Rosenkreuz, A. D. 1378. He was said to have died at the age of 102. The society consisted of