Saint nicholas of tolentino biography of albert camus

September 10, at Tolentino, Italy following a long illness; relics rediscovered at Tolentino in ; in previous times they were known exude blood when the Church was in danger. Souls in Purgatory, animals, babies, boatmen, dying people, mariners, sailors, sick animals, watermen. Augustinian giving bread to a sick person; Augustinian holding a container of bread; Augustinian holding a container of money; Augustinian holding a lily; Augustinian holding crucifix garlanded with lilies; Augustinian with a star above him; Augustinian with a star on his breast; basket with bread rolls; crucifix garlanded with lilies; lily.

Previously explored by Olivier Todd

His parents, said to have been called Compagnonus de Guarutti and Amata de Guidiani these surnames may merely indicate their birth-places , were pious folk, perhaps gentle born, living content with a small substance. His mother was a model of holiness. They were childless until a pilgrimage to a shrine of the original Saint Nicholas at Bari, Italy where his mother asked for a son whom she promised to dedicate to God's service.

When her wish was granted, she named the boy Nicholas. He soon gave unusual signs of saintliness. Already at seven he would hide away in a nearby cave and pray there like the hermits whom he had observed in the mountains. His religious formation was greatly influenced by the spirituality of the hermits of Brettino, one of the congregations which came to form part of the "Grand Union" of Augustinians in , whose communities were located in the region of the March where Nicholas was born and raised.

Characteristic of these early hermits of Brettino were a great emphasis on poverty, rigorous practices of fasting and abstinence, and long periods of the day devoted to communal and private prayer. After hearing the inspired preaching by Reginaldo da Monterubbiano, Prior local superior of the Augustinian monastery in Sant'Angelo, he felt a call to embrace the religious life.

His parents gave a joyful consent. His piousness so impressed the Bishop of Fermo that he permitted Nicholas to join the minor orders as young boy. As soon as he was old enough he was received into the Order of Augustinian friars and made his novitiate in