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Saint Andrew (Andrea) Corsini (
1302—
January 6,
1373) was an
Italian Carmelite and
bishop of Fiesole.
Biography
He was born in
Florence, in
1302, as member of the illustrious
Corsini family. Wild and dissolute in youth, he was startled by the words of his mother about what had happened to her before his birth, and, becoming a Carmelite monk in his native city, began a life of great
mortification. He studied at
Paris and
Avignon.
On his return, Andrew became the "Apostle of Florence". He was regarded as a
prophet and a
thaumaturgus. After being called to the post of bishop of Fiesole, which he didn't want, he fled. He was discovered by a child at the charterhouse at
Enna, and was subsequently compelled to accept the honour.
He redoubled his austerities as a bishop, was lavish in his care of the poor, and was sought for everywhere as a peacemaker, notably at
Bologna, whither he was sent as
papal legate to heal the breach between the nobility and the people.
After twelve years in the episcopacy, he died in
1373 at the age of seventy-one.
Veneration
In
1373, while he'd been celebrating the midnight
Mass of
Christmas, the
Blessed Virgin appeared to him and told him he'd leave this world on the feast of the
Epiphany, to meet
God. It came to pass, and he died on that day
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Miracles were so multiplied at his death that
Pope Eugene IV permitted a public cult immediately; but it was only in
1629 that
Pope Urban VIII canonized him. His feast is kept on
February 4.
In the early eighteenth century,
Pope Clement XII, born Lorenzo Corsini, erected in the Roman
Basilica of St. John Lateran a magnificent chapel dedicated to his 14th century kinsman.
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