Blessed Angelus of Gualdo Tadino

Blessed Angelus of Gualdo Tadino Also known as

Angelo

15 January
6 February on some calendars

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Born to a poor family. Benedictine. As a youth he walked barefoot to Compostela, northern Spain, became a Camaldolese lay-brother, and lived forty years as a hermit walled up in his cell. His life was distinguished by simplicity, innocence, gentleness.

Born

c.1265 at Gualdo Tadino, Nocera, Italy

Died

15 January 1325 of natural causes
interred in the church of Saint Benedict in Gualdo Tadino, Italy
relics transferred to a chapel in the local abbey church in 1343 by Blessed Alessandro Vincioli
relics transferred to a new altar in the basilica of Saint Benedict on 16 April 1443