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Siena College Mission Resource Guide

Siena College Mission Resource Guide

The Siena College Strategic Plan calls for the engagement of mission in all four of it's pillars:
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, COMMUNITY and REPUTATION
To provide all constituencies the resources critical to realizing this goal, we present this Mission Resource Guide. 

This libguide is created in conjunction with the Franciscan Mission Resource Guide found on the Siena College website:  https://www.siena.edu/mission-guide/

This Mission Resource Guide has been constructed to assist faculty, staff and administrators in engaging the mission, values and Franciscan root of Siena College. The resources listed will provide users a foundational knowledge of these mission topics. There are Friars available who are willing to assist those who may want a more detailed or scholarly approach to these topics. The Friars involved in the construction of this guide look upon it as a 'work in progress', a guide in need of constant updating and revision; we welcome any and all ideas as to how we might make it more user-friendly for our audience.  

For the resources listed in this guide, we offer a three levels of resources depending on your current understanding and/or desired level of interest.

Readership recommendation:

♦ - Beginning interest resource / Building a foundation.

♦♦ - Intermediate interest resource / Wanting to know more than the basics.

♦♦♦ - Academic or intense interest / What research has been contributed through scholarly communication.

The Lives of our Founders and Patrons: Bernardine of Siena (Alphabetical by Title)

PACETTI, D. "Bernardine of Siena, St." In New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed., 320-321. Vol. 2. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2003. Gale eBooks ♦
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Suggested Articles (Alphabetical by Author)

Arminio, Fra. 1921. “St. Bernardine of Siena and His Courses of Doctrinal and Moral Instructions.” American Ecclesiastical Review 65 (1): 29–36.  ♦♦
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Gumbinger, Cuthbert. “St. Bernardine of Siena, The Popular Preacher.” Franciscan Studies 2, no. 1 (1942): 12–34.  ♦♦♦
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Horan, Daniel OFM. "The Complicated History and the Popular Preaching of St. Bernardine of Siena" HNP Today Newsletter. (2011) ♦
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Huber, Raphael M. (Raphael Mary). “St. Bernardine of Siena.” American Ecclesiastical Review 110, no. 5 (1944): 345–58.  ♦
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Mazzarella, Bernardine. “St. Bernardine Of Siena, A Model Preacher.” Franciscan Studies 4, no. 4 (1944): 309–27. ♦♦♦
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Meussig, Carolyn. “Bernardino da Siena and Observant Preaching as a Vehicle for Religious Transformation.” In James Mixson and Bert Roest, eds. Observant Reform in the Later Middle Ages and Beyond, Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, 59 (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 185–203. ♦♦♦
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ST. BERNARDINE OF SIENA: REPORT OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE FRANCISCAN EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE: BURLINGTON, WIS.—JUNE 26-28, 1944 ♦♦♦
Published by: St. Bonaventure University -Franciscan Institute Publications
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Multimedia and Web Resources

Biography of St Bernardine of Siena in My Catholic Life! website: ♦
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"Saint Bernardine of Siena: The Apostle of Italy" from franciscantradition.org ♦
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Article for St Bernardine of Siena on The Holy Name of Jesus Website ♦
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