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
Additional Information
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Online
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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