!!!Marco dòAviano eigentlich Carlo Domenico Cristofori

b. Aviano (Italy), Nov. 17, 1631, 
d. Vienna, Aug. 13, 1699, Venetian Capuchin friar, penitential 
preacher, missionary, diplomat. 1683 Papal legate to the relieving 
army during the second siege of Vienna by the Turks (see:  Turkish 
Sieges of Vienna). Advocated open combat and unified the hesitant 
leaders through his fiery preaching (battle September 12, 1683). In 
his function as Emperor Leopold I's counsellor had great influence on 
Austrian politics. Since 1912, beatification process. Monument (1935) 
at the Kapuzinerkirche church, Vienna.

!Literature
M. Heyret, Pater M. von A., 1931; J. Pisa et al., M. d'A., 
exhibition catalogue, Wr. Stadt- u. Landesbibl., Vienna 2000; NDB.



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