Francis by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, from the altarpiece The Immaculate Conception with Saint Lawrence and Saint Francis of Paola
Hermit of St Francis
Born
27 March 1416 Paola, Calabria Citeriore, Kingdom of Naples
Died
2 April 1507(1507-04-02) (aged 91) Plessis-lez-Tours, Touraine, Kingdom of France
Venerated in
Roman Catholic Church
Beatified
1 November 1518
Canonized
1 May 1519 by Pope Leo X
Feast
2 April[1]
Patronage
Patron saint of Calabria; Paola, Calabria, Corigliano-Rossano, Altomonte, Botricello, Paterno Calabro, Sicily, Stornarella, San Fili, and formerly of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies; co-patron saint of Naples, Cosenza, Castrovillari, Bitonto, Castelleone di Suasa, Castrolibero, Luzzi, and of Bisignano; Amato; La Chorrera, Panama; Mabini, Batangas; boatmen, mariners, and naval officers
Francis of Paola, OM (also known as Francis the Fire Handler; 27 March 1416 – 2 April 1507), was an Italian Catholic friar and the founder of the Order of Minims. Unlike the majority of founders of men's religious orders, and like his patron saint Francis of Assisi, he was never ordained a priest.
^Ohio Sisters of Notre Dame of Chardon (1985). Saints and feast days : lives of the saints : with a calendar and ways to celebrate. Chicago: Loyola University Press. p. 2. ISBN 9780829405057.
FrancisofPaola, OM (also known as Francis the Fire Handler; 27 March 1416 – 2 April 1507), was an Italian Catholic friar and the founder of the Order...
(German: Paulanerorden), are a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by FrancisofPaola in fifteenth-century Italy. The order soon spread to France...
supposed site of her burial. Today, this is the Chiesa di San Francesco di Paola (Church of Saint FrancisofPaola). In addition, numerous Lives of this Saint...
Alcamo, in the province of Trapani, Sicily, southern Italy. Adjoining the church there is the convent of Saint FrancisofPaola. The church was founded...
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reign with seven of those being a group cause of martyrs. The most notable canonization from his papacy was that ofFrancisofPaola on 1 May 1519. That...
(both of the Original Observance and of the Trappist reform); Monks and Sisters of Bethlehem Order of Minims, founded by FrancisofPaola Order of Saint...
entertainment. Professor Gordon Campbell, of the University of Leicester, suggests that FrancisofPaola was among the first of the trend, living as a hermit in...
the Passion of Christ, and paintings of saints and Franciscan friars. The stone arch is characterized by the painting of St. FrancisofPaola, while on...
brewed for the feast of St. FrancisofPaola on 2 April which often falls in Lent), which today is trademarked by Paulaner. Brewers of modern Doppelbock...
dedicated it to Saint FrancisofPaola, who had stayed in a monastery on this site in the 15th century. The church is reminiscent of the Pantheon in Rome...
bilocation include Catherine de' Ricci, Saint Drogo, Anthony of Padua, FrancisofPaola, Francis Xavier, Martin de Porres, María de Ágreda, María de León...
Murat was shot. Paola, a town situated on the Tyrrhenian Sea coast, renowned for being the birthplace of St. FrancisofPaola, patron saint of Calabria and...
Sanctuary of Madonna of Miracles (Santuario di Maria Santissima dei Miracoli): built in 1547. Church of the Holy Crucifix (or saint FrancisofPaola), (Chiesa...
1996 by members of the Archdiocese of St. Paul in Minnesota. In 1435, FrancisofPaola founded the "Poor Hermits of Saint Francisof Assisi", later known...
public serve their beer on the day celebrating the father of their order, FrancisofPaola: April 2. This was named "fathers saint beer" (St. Vater Bier...
The Immaculate Conception with Saint Lawrence and Saint FrancisofPaola is an oil on canvas altarpiece by the Italian Rococo painter Giovanni Domenico...
di Paola may refer to: FrancisofPaola (1416–1507), Italian mendicant friar, founder of the Roman Catholic Order of Minims San Francesco di Paola Bridge...
artist's works of the 1640s, such as Saint FrancisofPaola Resuscitating a Child, "one can see Vouet concluding his career with pictures of an immense gravity...
Calabro is a town and a frazione of Corigliano-Rossano located in the province of Cosenza, c. 40 km northeast of the city of Cosenza, in Calabria, southern...
prince of Wales (b. 1486) 1507 – FrancisofPaola, Italian friar and saint, founded the Order of the Minims (b. 1416) 1511 – Bernard VII, Lord of Lippe...
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