Bl. Angelo Paoli

Priest | January 20
Bl. Angelo Paoli

Bl. Angelo Paoli

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Angelo Paoli (1 September 1642 – 20 January 1720) – born Francesco – was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Carmelite Order. Paoli led a life steeped in silence, prayer and mortification, but, above all, he was know for focusing his life on works of charity — both spiritual and corporal — in favor of the sick and the poor. He identified so much with the outcast and downtrodden that the people of Siena gave him the name of “Father Charity.” His motto was: “Whoever loves God must go to find Him among the poor.”

Due to his strong charitable outreach towards those who were poor and sick, he received praise from a number of cardinals and other prelates while living in Rome. This extended to his friend Cardinal Giuseppe Maria Tomasi and to popes Innocent XII and Clement XI who both offered him the cardinalate, which he refused.

Paoli’s beatification was celebrated on 25 April 2010 in the Basilica di San Giovanni Laterano, with Archbishop Angelo Amato presiding on the behalf of Pope Benedict XVI.


Source: https://ocarm.org/en/item/659-bl-angelo-paoli-priest