Tommaso da Olera
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Roman Catholic Church | |
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Beatified | 21 September 2013, Bergamo, Italy by Cardinal Angelo Amato |
Feast | 3 May |
Attributes | Capuchin habit |
Tommaso da Olera (1563 - 3 May 1631) - born Tommaso Acerbis was a
Life
Tommaso Acerbis was born in 1563 to poor parents and he worked as a shepherd as a child without ever having received proper schooling.
He joined the
Out of those convents he visited the sick people and also helped the poor. He often encouraged and championed a love of the faith to those who listened to him. When
He died in mid-1631 in Innsbruck. His remains are housed in Innsbruck.[1]
Papal veneration
Pope John XXIII was noted for having enjoyed the writings of the late Franciscan and even said that he was "a saint and a true master of the spirit". The pontiff received a gift from Doctor Joseph Mitterstiller from Innsbruck on 24 November 1959 which was a book of the spiritual writings of the late friar, and the pope's private secretary Loris Francesco Capovilla later wrote of the occasion and said that the pope had "declared his great esteem and veneration" for him.[2] Capovilla later wrote that on 20 May 1963 the dying pope asked that Capovilla, the pope's nurse, Fra Federico Bellotti and the two helpers Guido and Giampaolo Gusso read for him on his deathbed the late friar's works amongst others. Pope Paul VI also spoke of his esteem for Acerbis.
Beatification
The stages of the beatification process commenced on 28 February 1967 in an informative process that concluded its work on 19 April 1968 with the
A miracle led to a diocesan tribunal from 26 October 2006 to 4 October 2007 to investigate and later submitted its findings to the C.C.S. who validated the process on 16 January 2009. A medical board issued their approval to it on 24 February 2011 while theologians likewise approved it on 22 October 2011 as did the C.C.S. on 7 February 2012. Pope Benedict XVI issued the final approval needed for it on 10 May 2012 and Cardinal Angelo Amato - on the behalf of Pope Francis - celebrated the beatification mass in Bergamo on 21 September 2013.[citation needed] The postulator assigned to this cause is Fra Carlo Calloni.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b c d "Blessed Tommaso Acerbis". Saints SQPN. 21 April 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
- ^ a b c d "Confessor, Br. Thomas Acerbis of Olera". Order of Friars Minor Capuchin Korea. Archived from the original on 6 October 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.