(A.D. 1612.)
[Roman Martyrology Authority:--The Acts of his Beatification, which
took place in 1737, and those of his canonization in 1746.]
This Saint was born at Leonissa, in the States of the Church, in 1556.
He entered the Capuchin Order, and laboured at the redemption of
Christian slaves. He died of cancer, at the age of fifty-eight. As the
doctors desired to perform a painful operation on him, to remove the
cancer, they ordered him to be bound, but he placed his crucifix
before him saying, "this is the firmest of all bonds; it will hold me
immoveable. Cut deep, I shall not flinch."