Blessed Fra Angelico
![[Fra Angelico stained glass window]](saintf11.jpg "18kb jpg stained glass window of Fra Angelico, artist unknown; if you have information on this image, please email me; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Also known as
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Angelico
Beato
Fra Giovanni
Giovanni da Fiesole
Giovanni de Fiesole
Guido di Pietro
John of Fiesole
Painter of the Angels
- Memorial
- 18 February
- Profile
- Joined the Dominicans in Fiesole, Italy in 1407, taking the name Fra Giovanna.
Taught to illuminate missals and manuscripts.
He immediately exhibited a natural talent, as an artist and his works can be seen in Cortona, Fiesole, Florence, and the Vatican.
His dedication to religious art earned him the title Angelico.
- Born
- 1387 in Vicchio di Mugello near Florence, Italy as Guido di Pietro
- Died
- 18 February 1455 in the Dominican convent at Rome, Italy of natural causes
- Name Meaning
- anglico = angelic; beato = blessed
- Beatified
- 3 October 1982 by Pope John Paul II
- Canonized
- pending;
if you have information relevant to the canonization of Fra Angelico, contact:
Pp. Domenicani
Via del Beato Angelico, 35
00186 Roma, ITALY
- Patronage
- artists
- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Google Directory: Fra Angelico
Google Directory: Works by Fra Angelico
Knights in Art, by Amy Steedman
New Catholic Dictionary
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
Web Gallery of Art images of works
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