Blessed Alexander Baldrati
Blessed Alexander Baldrati (born 1585 AD in Lugo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy; died November 1, 1603 AD in Lugo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) was a young Italian layman and Franciscan tertiary from Lugo di Romagna. He was known for exceptional piety, charity, and penance from childhood, and died at age 18. He was beatified by Pope Pius XII in 1954. His feast day is November 1.
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| Blessed Alexander Baldrati | |
|---|---|
| Feast Day | November 01 |
| Profession | Young Catholic layman; Franciscan tertiary; adolescent mystic; model of Eucharistic piety |
| Rel. Affiliation | Catholic Church; Franciscan Third Order; Diocese of Imola-Faenza (historically); 17th-century Italian lay holiness |
| Patronage | Lugo di Romagna; young people; Franciscan tertiaries; Eucharistic devotion; Emilia-Romagna |
| Attributes | Young man in lay clothes; Eucharist (his devotion); Franciscan tertiary cord; lily (purity of a young saint); Lugo di Romagna landscape |
| Birthplace | Lugo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
| Death Place | Lugo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
| Cause of Death | Natural death (illness); died November 1, 1603, the feast of All Saints, in Lugo di Romagna; he was 18 years old; he had been known from childhood for remarkable piety, penance, and Eucharistic devotion; he died young after a holy life; his body was venerated in Lugo di Romagna; his beatification by Pope Pius XII on October 17, 1954, gave formal recognition to the cult that had been maintained for three and a half centuries in Lugo |
| Primary Shrine | Lugo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna — local veneration; November 1 feast; primary church in Lugo |
| Liturgical Class | Not in universal Roman calendar; November 1 feast in Lugo di Romagna and Emilia-Romagna |
| Historic Class | Not in 1962 calendar |
Biography
Alexander Baldrati was born in 1585 in Lugo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna. From childhood he was known for exceptional piety, Eucharistic devotion, and penance beyond his years. He entered the Franciscan Third Order and lived an exemplary life of prayer and charity.
He died on November 1, 1603 — All Saints Day — at age 18. He was beatified by Pope Pius XII on October 17, 1954, giving formal recognition to the cult that had been maintained in Lugo di Romagna for three and a half centuries.
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Birth location: Lugo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Death location: Lugo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Blessed Alexander Baldrati was an 18-year-old Franciscan tertiary from Lugo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, known for exceptional Eucharistic devotion. He died on All Saints Day, November 1, 1603. Beatified by Pius XII, 1954. Feast November 1.
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