Saint of the Day – 28 August – Blessed Angelo da Pesche d’Isernia TOR (c 1400-1460) Lay Franciscan Tertiary, Holy Beggar, gifted with the charism of levitation, apostle of the poor, spiritual adviser – born in c 1400 in Pesche d’Isernia, Italy and died in 1460 in the Franciscan monastery in Lucera, Foggia, Italy of natural causes.
The blessed is named in the ‘Franciscan Martyrology’ on 28 August, he was born in Pesche d’Isernia around the year 1400, of his life it is known that he was a layman, gardener and beggar of the Franciscan Order, in various Convents in Southern Italy.
Blessed Angelo he had a great spirit of prayer and union with God, which he did not lose even in carrying out the most humble and material works.
It is said that having been called to the house of the Countess of Ariano, wife of Count Innico, he arrived when a concert was being given in the palace in the presence of the Count. Upon hearing that fifteenth-century music, his thoughts went to the celestial choirs and this gave him an ecstasy, rising from the ground for a while.
And like so many other humble friars and holy men in past centuries, thanks to their simplicity and discernment in reading people’s hearts, they were sought out and consulted for advice and guidance, Blessed Angelo da Pesche d’Isernia was also consulted and followed in his simple but profound advice from princes and nobles of the Aragonese kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
He died in the Franciscan Convent of Lucera (Foggia) in 1460, his body rests in this Apulian city.
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