Saint Felice da Nicosia
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- Also known as
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Felice from Nicosia;
Felice of Nicosia;
Giacomo Amoroso
- Profile
- Son of a shoemaker; he learned his father's trade.
Pious, hard working youth.
Orphan.
At age 19 he tried to enter a Capuchin convent, but was turned away; he tried again; and again; and again.
After eight years of pleading, he was admitted on 19 October 1743, taking the name Felix.
For 40 years he served as a beggar for his house.
Had a great devotion to the Blessed Sacrament.
Had the gift of healing, both physical and spiritual, and of bilocation.
Worked tirelessly with the sick during a plague epidemic in Cerami, Italy in March 1777, healing many and coming though it all unharmed.
He was so devoted to his obedience to his order that he asked the guardian permission to die.
- Born
- 5 November 1715 in Nicosia, Italy as Giacomo Amoroso
- Died
- 31 May 1787 in Nicosia, Italy of natural causes;
relics translated to the cathedral of Nicosia in 1891
- Venerated
- 4 March 1862
- Beatified
- 12 February 1888 by Pope Leo XIII
- Canonized
- 23 October 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI at Rome, Italy
- Additional Information
- Almanacco Siciliano - italiano
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