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Blessed Benincasa of Montepulciano

Blessed Benincasa of Montepulciano Also known as

Benincasa of Montechiello
Benincosa of…
John Benincasa
Giovanni Benincasa

9 May
11 May (Servites)
20 June on some calendars

Profile

Joined the Servites as a teenager. At age 25 he became a prayerful hermit in a cell on Monte Amiata near Siena, Italy. Around age 50 he was ordered by the Servites to move to their community at Monticchiello, Italy where he lived his final months.

Born

1375 at Montepulciano, Siena, Italy

9 May 1426 at Monticchiello, Italy of natural causes

23 December 1829 by Pope Pius VIII (cultus confirmation)

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Saints of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein

books
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

images
- Santi e Beati

sitios en español
- Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición

fonti in italiano
- Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

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