Upper tier, left mural
Paul of Rome, or Paulus de Roma, appears as the left mural along the North wall's upper tier. The burgundy-red tip of his zucchetto cap offers a rare daub of color to the mural cycle, as does the biretta and galero hats of Buenaventura of Padua and Alexander of Saxoferrato (West wall), respectively.
Paul was an a 15th century Augustinian friar and theologian, prior of the Roman convento of Santa Maria del Popolo. He is sometimes mistakenly placed in the 16th century because many of his treatises were not published until then, such as his well circulated De Pensione Ecclesiastica (1539). He is best remembered for his writings in defense of his Order (Apologia Ordinis Eremitarum Sancti) and of the Papacy (De Usu et Exercitio Clavium).
“The OESA {Order of Hermits of St. Augustine} wrote extensively on the authenticity of papal power during the political disputes between secular authorities and the papacy during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Giles of Rome, James of Viterbo, Augustinus of Ancona, Alexander of San Elpidio, William of Cremona, Bartholomew of Urbino, John Hickley, Thomas Winterton, Augustinus Favaroni of Rome, William Becchi of Florence, Paul of Rome, and Domenico of San Severino were all Austins who publicly defended papal power, an astonishing collection of theologians given the OESA’s small numbers.”
(Laferrière, Anik. The Austin Friars in Pre-Reformation English Society. Keble College, University of Oxford, Doctor of Philosophy Thesis, 2017, p. 40)
Paul was an a 15th century Augustinian friar and theologian, prior of the Roman convento of Santa Maria del Popolo. He is sometimes mistakenly placed in the 16th century because many of his treatises were not published until then, such as his well circulated De Pensione Ecclesiastica (1539). He is best remembered for his writings in defense of his Order (Apologia Ordinis Eremitarum Sancti) and of the Papacy (De Usu et Exercitio Clavium).
“The OESA {Order of Hermits of St. Augustine} wrote extensively on the authenticity of papal power during the political disputes between secular authorities and the papacy during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Giles of Rome, James of Viterbo, Augustinus of Ancona, Alexander of San Elpidio, William of Cremona, Bartholomew of Urbino, John Hickley, Thomas Winterton, Augustinus Favaroni of Rome, William Becchi of Florence, Paul of Rome, and Domenico of San Severino were all Austins who publicly defended papal power, an astonishing collection of theologians given the OESA’s small numbers.”
(Laferrière, Anik. The Austin Friars in Pre-Reformation English Society. Keble College, University of Oxford, Doctor of Philosophy Thesis, 2017, p. 40)
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