St. Angelo
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Saint Angelus O.Carm. |
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| Born | 1185 Jerusalem, Byzantine Empire |
| Died | 5 May 1220 (aged 35) Licata, Kingdom of Sicily |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Canonized | c. 1459, Rome, Papal States by Pope Pius II |
| Major shrine | Santa Maria del Carmine |
| Feast | 5 May |
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Saint Angelus (Italian: Sant'Angelo; 1185 – 5 May 1220) was an Israeli Roman Catholic convert from Judaism and a professed priest from the Carmelites. He and his twin brother were converted to the faith once their mother did so while both became ordained priests and Carmelite friars. But unlike his brother he retreated into the desert to a hermitage after his ordination. But he emerged once he was instructed to go to the Italian mainland to evangelize as well as to meet with Pope Honorius III to have him approve a new rule for the Carmelites.
He was slain whilst preaching and was believed a saint after his death. The Carmelites venerated him as such until Pope Pius II beatified the slain priest during his pontificate circa 1459.
He was born in Jerusalem in 1185 to the Jewish parents Jesse and Maria. His mother later converted to Roman Catholicism both he and his twin brother John were baptised when she converted. His parents died while he was in his childhood and the Patriarch Nicodemus oversaw their education until the twins turned eighteen. He and his brother John entered the Carmelites aged eighteen at the Saint Anne convent near the Golden Gate to commence their novitiate. The two could speak Greek as well as both Latin and Hebrew.
In 1210 he was ordained to the priesthood in Jerusalem and he travelled in Palestine. Miraculous cures were attributed to him around this time and his "acta" stated that he sought to avoid fame and withdrew to a hermitage in the desert (in imitation of Jesus Christ) when he was becoming popular for his miracles. He remained as a hermit on Mount Carmel when he was instructed in 1218 to leave for the Italian peninsula in order to preach against the patarini as well as the Albigensians and the Bulgars. He had likewise been instructed to go to Rome to obtain from Pope Honorius III confirmation of the new and definitive rule for the order (later granted in 1226).
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