Blessed Michael Pini

Memorial

• 27 January

Profile

Favored courtier to Lorenzo de’ Medici. Camaldolese hermit in 1502. After his ordination, Michael was walled up in his hermitage where he spent his remaining twenty years. Had the gift of prophecy.

Born

• c.1445 at Florence, Italy

Died

• 1522 of natural causes

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Michael Pini”. Saints.SQPN.com. 28 March 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-michael-pini/>