page_title: Anthony Zaccaria
section_title: List of Sermons
hierarchical_section_title: Anthony Zaccaria / Writings / List of Sermons
caption_attribution_description: English: Anthony Maria Zaccaria
context_page_description: Anthony Maria Zaccaria, also known as Saint Anthony Zaccaria, was an early leader of the Counter Reformation, the founder of religious orders and a promoter of the devotion to the Passion of Christ, the Eucharist and the renewal of the religious life among the lay people. His feast day is celebrated on 5 July.
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  CONSTITUTIONS
  We have no original manuscript of the Constitutions. We only have a very early copy. The Constitutions is no more than an extended outline. It was never approved nor promulgated, hence, it was never binding. In all probability, it is a reworked translation of a previous Latin outline by Fra Battista, the so-called “Primitive Constitutions.” It was a basic text worked on by the first Fathers toward a definitive text.
  The available text consists of 19 chapters, but a close scrutiny points to several layers of composition. There is a conclusion at the end of Chapter 16; another one at the end of Chapter 18; and a third one at the end of Chapter 19. This is evidence that the text went through several writings and underwent multiple reworking.
  A letter of Father Nicolò D’Aviano, dated October 10, 1570 (even as the definitive Constitutions of 1579 were being redacted), informs us that three chapters of the Constitutions were without a doubt authored by Anthony Mary himself. They are Chapter 12: “Formation of Novices”; Chapter 17: “Signs of Deteriorating 17 Religious Life”; and Chapter 19: “Qualities of a Reformer.” In addition, Anthony Mary's hand can be recognized, more or less, throughout the entire document.
  The Constitutions is a document of laws. Hence, its literary genre is juridical. However, in Anthony Mary's additions, the peremptory style turns exhortatory. We may even state that this change of style helps to locate Anthony Mary's interpolations in the original text of Battista da Crema.
caption: The Constitutions of 1579
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