Bernardine, St., of Siena, born at Massa Carrara, in Italy, of noble family; founder of the Observantines, a branch, and restoration on strict lines, of the Franciscan order; established 300 monasteries of the said branch; his works, written in a mystical vein, fill five folio vols. (1380‒1444).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre * Bernauer, Agnes