Angelo Paoli

Angelus P. Paoli O.Carm. ( Born September 1, 1642 Argigliano / Tuscany, † January 20, 1720 in Rome) was a Roman Catholic priest and Carmelite. On April 25, 2010 he was beatified in St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome.

Life

Angelus P. Paoli was born on September 1, 1642 Argigliano (Tuscany) and christened with the name Francis. In 1660 he entered the novitiate Fivizzano a Carmelite and received the tonsure and minor orders. After the novitiate, he was sent to Siena, where he took his first vows on December 18. Fr Angelus studied philosophy and theology in Pisa and Florence, where he celebrated his first Mass on January 7, 1667.

The life of Father Angelus Paoli can be divided into two periods, in the Province of the Order in Rome and Tuscany. In the first years of his religious life was often displaced P. Angelus: Florence and Pistoia in 1674 after Argigliano 1675 as novice master to Florence, after 18 months as pastor after Krain and 1677 to Siena. From 1682 onwards, he was a teacher of philosophy in Klerikat his province. 1687 P. Angelus from the Prior General Paolo di S. Ignazio called as novice master and economist to Rome in the convent of S. Martino ai Monti, where he remained 32 years of his life.

From the first years of his religious life to he sought a life in silence to prayer and asceticism. These were used his countless works of charity in the care of the sick and the poor, so that it already in Siena men " father of charity " called, a name which he has fully complied with in his later years, especially in Rome. In Rome, he was responsible for the two hospitals for men and women, " St. John. " For the homeless and street children in the area from the Colosseum to the Lateran basilica, he founded a hospice, a then new and farsighted creation! "Whoever loves God must serve him under the arms ," was his motto. P. Angelus has been able to inspire many people and to persuade them to support the needy - especially in the earthquake and the floods in Rome in the years 1701-1706.

Many wealthy Romans valued P. Angelus as a consultant. They followed his advice and supported his active charity. The Popes Innocent XIII. (1691-1700) and Clement XI. (1700-1721) offered him the cardinal's hat, which he has not accepted, because that would interfere with the service of the poor.

P. Angelus had a very great trust in Divine Providence. This trust was hard to tell whether it concerned his food chamber for the poor, in nothing was missing, or when feeding the poor, in which the food was sufficient wonderful. He always paid attention to a fair remuneration of the workers.

This was possible only through his deep connection with God that he had been looking for as a child in the solitude of a cave, in his monastery cell or in a small choir of the church of S. Martino ai Monti. The nights passed on him like a flash, while " in prayer to the breast of Jesus rested ," as he himself once put it. P. Angelus died on 20 January 1720 and was buried in the left aisle of the church of S. Martino ai Monti.

Beatification

Only three years after his death, the Informative Process in Florence, Pisa and Rome was opened and continued in Rome from 1740 to 1753. His heroic virtues was in 1781 by Pope Pius VI. been confirmed. An ascribed healing from 1927 could be medically recognized as " inexplicable cure ". His beatification took place on April 25, 2010 in the Lateran Basilica in Rome.