Blessed Angelo Carletti di Chivasso
- Also known as
- Angelus Carletti of Chivasso
- Memorial
- 12 April
- Profile
- Studied law at Bologna, and practised at Monferrato.
Elected senator, he abandoned office and his practice to become a Franciscan at Genoa, Italy.
Noted theologian.
Papal nuncio for Pope Sixtus IV and Pope Innocent VIII.
Preached a Crusade against invading Turks.
Preached against Waldensianism and usurious money lenders.
Wrote Cases of Conscience, a dictionary of moral theology.
- Born
- 1411 at Chivasso, diocese of Ivrea, Italy
- Died
- 1495 at Coni, Italy of natural causes
- Beatified
- cultus confirmed by Pope Benedict XIV
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
New Catholic Dictionary
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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