Tobia Lionelli (1647 – 17 October 1714) was a Slovene–Italian preacher and writer in the Baroque period. His sermons had a crucial role in the affirmation of Slovene as a language.[1] He is also known by his monastic nameJohn Baptist of Sveti Križ in Vipava (Latin: Joannes Baptista à Sancta Cruce Vippacensi;[2][3] later Slovenized as Janez (Krstnik) Svetokriški,[4]Janez Krstnik od svetega Križa,[5] or Ivan Krstnik od Križa[6]).

Lionelli was born to a Slovene mother and an Italian father in the town of Sveti Križ (now Vipavski Križ) in the Vipava Valley, County of Gorizia. A recent theory conjectures that he was actually born as Ivan Hrobat, the illegitimate son of Katarina Hrobat and a nobleman of the Lanthieri family, and that the surname Lionelli was purchased to avoid embarrassment.[7][8]
He took the name "Joannes Baptista à Sancta Cruce Vippacensi" upon joining the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in reference to his native town and probably also to the Spanish mystic St. John of the Cross. He served in various monasteries in the Slovene Lands, including the Capuchin monastery of St. Francis Assisi in his native town, and in Croatia. Lionelli died in Gorizia, where he had spent the last years of his life.
Lionelli wrote over 230 sermons, which he published in a series of five books entitled Sacrum promptuarium (The Holy Handbook).[9] One of his best-known sermons is Na noviga lejta dan (On New Year's Day). The publication of these books was financed by members of the nobility and benefactors from within the Church.
リオネッリの『サクルム・プロンプトゥアリウム』は1691年から1707年の間に出版された。[ 1 ]最初の2巻はヴェネツィアで、残りの3巻はリュブリャナで出版された。これらはスロベニア語のブルダ方言で書かれており、近隣のインナー・カルニオラ方言の影響を強く受けており、ドイツ語由来の表現やラテン語の引用が多数見られる。構文は典型的なバロック様式で、古典の伝統への言及がある。