Blessed Angelus of Gualdo Tadino

Memorial

• 15 January
• 6 February on some calendars

Profile

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

Beatified

• 1633 by Pope Urban VIII (cultus confirmed)
• 3 August 1825 by Pope Leo XII (cultus confirmed)

Patronage

• Gualdo Tadino, Italy

Additional Information

• Abbé Stéphane Ansart
• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Roman Martyrology
• Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Angelus of Gualdo Tadino“. Saints.SQPN.com. 15 January 2013. Web. 24 May 2013. <>