Lorenzo Cozza

For five years, Cozza was master of Francesco Antonio Placidi, friar Minor and future Saint Thomas of Cori.

[1] Cardinal Urbano Sacchetti chose Cozza as his confessor and theological adviser, thus giving rise to a lifelong friendship.

While in the Orient (1709–1715), where he had been sent as superior of the Franciscan monastery in Jerusalem and guardian of the Holy Sepulchre, Cozza found leisure to compose several important works.

As papal legate he reconciled the Maronites and the Patriarch Jacobus Petrus of Antioch and his faithful, who had long been at disagreement with the Holy See.

On 9 December 1726, he was granted permission to continue as minister general of his order, he opted for the title of Saint Mary in Aracoeli on 20 January 1727.