Blessed Guy Vignotelli

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16 June
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Wealthy layman know for his charity to the poor. After hearing a sermon by Saint Francis of Assisi he gave away the rest of his riches and became a Franciscan tertiary, received into the order by Saint Francis himself in 1211. Priest. Hermit near Cortona, living in a cell on a bridge. Miracle worker.
Born
c.1185 at Cortona, Italy
Died
1245 at the Franciscan convent at Cortona, Italy of natural causes
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