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Also known as

• Angelo

Memorial

• 4 July

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Born to Giovanni and Maria Loreta Antonucci. Early feeling a call to religious life, Angelo joined the Franciscan Friars Minor (Reformed) at the convent of San Angelo in Ocre, Italy at age 15. He made his initial vows on 21 November 1891, age 18, taking the name Brother Cesidio in honour of Saint Caesidius, and his solemn profession on 8 December 1892. After further studies, he was ordained a priest in the archdiocese of L’Aquila, Italy in 1897.

Assigned first to the convent in Capestrano, Italy, in 1898 he was sent to Rome, Italy to study at the International College of San Antonio to prepare for work as a missionary. On 22 October 1899, he and two other brothers sailed for China. There he worked in the small community of Tong-siang until the anti-Catholic persecutions of the Boxer Rebellion overran the area. He was seized by the Boxer forces while trying to protect the Blessed Sacrament, stoned, beaten and murdered. Martyr.

Born

• 30 August 1873 in Fossa, L’Aquila, Italy as Angelo Giacomantonio

Died

• wrapped in a sheet soaked in oil and then burned to death on 4 July 1900 in Hengzhou, Hunan, China

Venerated

• 3 January 1943 by Pope Pius XII (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 24 November 1946 by Pope Pius XII

Canonized

• 1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II

MLA Citation

• “Saint Cesidio Giacomantonio“. CatholicSaints.Info. 4 July 2021. Web. 26 April 2024. <>