Marco da Montegallo
Italian physician and monk
Feast: 19 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Marco da Montegallo (1425 - 19 March 1496) was an Italian religious priest from the Order of Friars Minor. He was born to a nobleman and served as a doctor in Ascoli Piceno before he was pressured into marriage in 1451 - the couple annulled their marriage after both entered the religious life. Father Marco is best known for establishing pawnshops for the poor across various Italian cities and for being a preacher of love.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q15635147 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Marco da Montegallo (CC BY-SA)
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