Ignatius Belvisotti (Ignazio da Santhia/Ignatius de Santhiá Belvisotti/Lorenzo Maurizio Belvisotti, 1686-1716)
Ignatius Belvisotti (Ignazio da Santhia/Ignatius de Santhiá Belvisotti/Lorenzo Maurizio Belvisotti, 1686-1716) OFMCap. Italian friar. Born at Santhia on June 5th, 1686. Was already a secular priest in the Vercelli diocese and a canon responsible for courses on rhetorics and literature in his collegial chapter, before he entered the Capuchin order in the Piemontese province (24 May, 1716), taking the name Ignatius. He was a novice master for many years. and obtained a reputation of holiness, nicknamed 'the Father of Sinners and the Lost.' Died at the Monte dei Cappuccini convent (Turin, 21 September 1770). In 1780, the town of Turin, supported by King Amadeo asked Pope Pius VI to start a beatification process, which eventually took off in 1792
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Meditazioni per un corso di spirituali esercizi (Rome: Col. di San Lorenzo da Brindisi, 1912).
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