Blessed Tommaso of Costacciaro
- 25 March
- 1st Sunday of September (Costacciaro, Italy)
Profile
After a visit to a Camaldolese hermitage in 1270, Tommaso was drawn to the monastic and eremetical life. Camaldolese monk in the abbey of Santa Maria in Sitria, Italy. Hermit on Monte Cucco in the Umbria region of Italy for over 60 years, living a life of utter poverty and denial in order to spend all his time in prayer and meditation.
Born
- mid-13th century in the castle of San Savino, Costacciaro, Umbria, diocese of Gubbio, Italy
- 25 March 1337 on Monte Cucco, Umbria, Italy of natural causes
- buried at the Franciscan Conventual church in Costacciaro, Italy
- relics enshrined under the main altar of the church in 1546
- Pope Clement VIII (cultus confirmation)
- a list of miracles attributed to his intercession was compiled in 1726
- a list of miracles attributed to his intercession was compiled in 1748
- 18 March 1778 by Pope Pius VI (cultus extended to the diocese of Gubbio, Italy)
- 1833 by Pope Gregory XVI (cultus extended to the Camaldolese)
MLA Citation
- “Blessed Tommaso of Costacciaro“. CatholicSaints.Info. 25 March 2017. Web. 21 January 2019. <>