James Salomoni

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Giacomo Salomoni
30 May
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  • Against tumors

Giacomo Salomoni, OP (1231 – 31 May 1314) was an

convents until he settled in Forlì, where he remained until his death.[2]

Salomoni's beatification was approved in mid-1526.

Life

Giacomo Salomoni was born in 1231 in the

Cistercian nun at which stage his maternal grandmother raised him.[2]

He became a

ecstatic state. From 1269 he lived at a Dominican convent in Forlì and was called the "father of the poor".[2][1] He also earned fame for being the person who received the confession of Carino of Balsamo - the murderer of Peter of Verona - and became his spiritual director
.

Salomoni suffered from

translated to Venice to the basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in a chapel.[1]

Beatification

In 1315 a brotherhood was founded to promote veneration for Salomoni. On 26 June 1526 he received formal beatification from Pope Clement VII upon the confirmation of his cult for Forlì. But it was not until 1568 that Pope Pius V approved that veneration for Venice; Pope Gregory XV approved his cult for the Dominicans in 1622.[1]

A shrine was built to Salomoni at the Saint Catherine of Siena church that the Dominicans manage in Manhattan.

The oldest indult which Pope Benedict XIV quotes in this connection is that which Clement VII granted to the Dominicans of the convent of Forlì on 25 January 1526 to celebrate the Mass for the late Salomoni "as often during the year as their devotion may move them to do so" (Benedict XIV, De canonizatione de SS.).[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Beato Giacomo da Venezia". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e "James Salomonius, Bl". Encyclopedia.com. 2003. Retrieved 4 May 2017.

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