Anthony of Baloche

Anthony Of Baloche (or OF VERCELLI, so called from the place of his birth), was a Franciscan of the Congregation of Regular Observantines. He was a very celebrated preacher, and flourished about 1480. His Quadragesimale de duodecim Excellentiis Christiance Fidei was printed af Venice in 1492, and at Lyons in 1504. He also wrote a Treatise of the Virtues (Haguenau, 1512), and another Quadragesimale on the eternal fruits of the Holy Spirit, given by Wadding, De Scriptoribus Ord. Minor. p. 29. See Cave, Hist. Lit. ii, 195.