Blessed Andrew of Montereale

Memorial

• 12 April
• 18 April on some calendars

Profile

Joined the Augustinians at age 14 in Montereale, Italy. Priest. Travelling preacher in Italy and France, known for his learning and personal holiness. Studied theology in Rimini, Padua, Ferrara and Siena in Italy. Reformed Augustinian monasteries in Umbria, Italy. Chosen Augustinian provincial in 1453 and 1471. In his later years he retired to the Augustinian monastery at Montereale.

Born

• c.1403 in Mascioni, Campotosto, Italy

Died

• 18 April 1479 at the Augustinian monastery of Montereale, Italy of natural causes
• interred in the Augustianian Friars Church in Montereale

Beatified

• 18 February 1764 by Pope Clement XIII (cultus confirmed)

Patronage

• Montereale, Italy

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Kirken i Norge
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Andrew of Montereale”. Saints.SQPN.com. 15 August 2010. Web. 21 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-andrew-of-montereale/>