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Also known as

• Andrés Gregho
• Andrés of Peschiera
• Andrew…
• Apostle of the Valtellina

Memorial

• 18 January
• 19 January (diocese of Verona, Italy)

Profile

Raised in a pious family, Andrés grew up on the shore of Lake Garda in Italy. He early felt a desire to become a hermit, and tried living in monastic style at his father‘s home. When his father died, the 15 year old Andrew joined the Dominicans at the priory at Brescia, Italy. Studied at the San Marco monastery in Florence, Italy with Saint Antoninus of Florence, Blessed Lawrence of Riprafratta, Blessed Constantius of Fabriano, and Blessed Antony della Chiesa. Priest. Travelling preacher in the Valtellina region of Italy, and the areas of Switzerland where the Albigensian heresy had taken root; he worked in the area for 45 years, travelling the mountains on foot, staying with the poor, staying where he could, hiding from bandits and heretics, living off whatever came to hand. Among the parishes, churches, hospitals, schools, orphanages and monasteries he founded was the convent at Morbegno, Italy which became a base of operations for Dominicans trying to bring the people back to orthodox Christianity, and where Andrés retired to spend his final years as a prayerful monk.

Born

• 1400 in Peschiera del Garda, Italy

Died

• 18 January 1485 in the Dominican convent at Morbegno, Sondrio, Lombardy, Italy of natural causes
• buried at the parish church in Morbegno
• miracles reported at his tomb
• the number of pilgrims who came to it caused the friars to relocate his relics twice, each time to a place with easier access

Beatified

• 26 September 1820 by Pope Pius VII (cultus confirmation)

Representation

• book with a snake emerging from the pages; it refers to a report of a miracle in which Albegensian heretics brought Andrés a book that they said would explain their beliefs; he told them to open it; a serpent emerged from the pages, the heretics saw the error of their ways, and converted back to orthodox Christianity

Readings

An obedient religious is a holy religious. – Blessed Andrés

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Andrés de Peschiera Grego“. CatholicSaints.Info. 31 July 2023. Web. 26 April 2024. <>