Saint Angelus of Acri - October 30
Also known as
Angelo of Acri
Anioł z Acri
Luca Antonio Falcone
Memorial
30 October
Profile
Twice refused admission to the Capuchins, but was finally accepted in 1690. Priest. His first sermons were miserable but he overcame that, too, and became a famous and sought after preacher. Sought after home missioner in the Italian regions of Calabria and Naples, performing miraculous healings and converting thousands. Had the gifts of prophecy, bi-location, visions, and the ability to see into men’s souls in Confession.
Born
19 October 1669 at Acri, Cosenza, Italy
Died
30 October 1739 at the friary of Acri, Consenza, Italy
Venerated
17 June 1821 by Pope Pius VII (decree of heroic virtues)
Beatified
18 December 1825 by Pope Leo XII
beatification celebrated at Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, Italy
there were three miracles attributed to his intercession – the narrow escape of a person from a fall from a precipice; a person’s complete recovery from debilitating arthritis; the sudden clearing of a ‘purulent inflammation’ in another person
Canonized
15 October 2017 by Pope Francis
canonization celebrated at Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, Italy
the canonization miracle involved the healing of a young man from “polytrauma; head trauma with lacerated contusive foci; right frontotemporal fracture; thoraco-abdominal fracture with pulmonary contusion: maxillofacial trauma with scalp wounds and multiple excoriations” in March 2010 in the archdiocese of Consenza-Bisignano, Italy
Patronage
Acri, Italy