Angelo Tancredi Explained

Honorific Prefix:Blessed
Angelo Tancredi
Honorific Suffix:OFM
Birth Date:1195
Death Date:13 February 1258
Feast Day:13 February
Venerated In:Roman Catholic Church
Birth Place:Rieti, Duchy of Spoleto, Holy Roman Empire
Titles:Religious

The blessed Angelo Tancredi (died 1258) was a Roman Catholic monastic leader, one of the 12 early companions of Saint Francis of Assisi.

He was born in Rieti, where as a young armored knight he putatively met Francis, who putatively told him:

Lord Angelo, long time is it now since first you girt on your sword, and donned all your warlike armour. Now would it become you to gird you with a rough rope like me; in place of the sword to take the Cross of Christ, and for boots and spurs to shoe you with the dust and mire of the streets. Follow me, then, and I will make you a knight of Christ.

Loyally following Francis in his wanderings through Italy, Spain, and France, he putatively was present for saint's sermon to the birds.[1] He also putatively aided St Clare of Assisi in establishing her order.

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=IAMdAAAAYAAJ Sons of Francis