Blessed Torello of Poppi

Memorial

• 16 March

Profile

After a wild and misspent youth, Torello lived 60 years as a hermit in a walled-up cave. Vallombrosan oblate.

Born

• 1201 or 1202 at Poppi, Tuscany, Italy

Died

• between 1281 and 1292 at Poppi, Tuscany, Italy of natural causes

Beatified

• by Pope Benedict XIV (cultus confirmed)

Patronage

• Poppi, Italy

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Il Libro d’Oro
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Torello of Poppi“. Saints.SQPN.com. 30 March 2013. Web. 25 May 2013. <>

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