St. Antony Mary Pucci Biography
St. Antony Mary Pucci Biography, Feast Day, Date of Birth, Country of Birth, Profession, Place of Work, Date of Death, Place of Death, Beatification Date, Canonization Date |
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| Date of Birth | 16 April 1818 |
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| Country of Birth | Italy of Europe |
| Matrimony/Holy Orders | Saints who were Priests |
| Profession | N/A |
| Place of Work | Italy |
| Date of Death | 12 January 1892 |
| Place of Death | Viareggio, Italy |
| Feast Day | January 12 |
| Beatification | Beatified by Pope Pius XII on 22 June 1952 |
| Canonization | Canonized by Pope John XXIII on 9 December 1962 |
| Patron Saint of | Vernio, Italy |
Saint’s Biography
Saint Antony Mary Pucci was born as Eustacius Pucci on April 16, 1818, in Poggiole di Vernio, Italy. He was the second of seven children in a poor peasant family. Antony desire to live for the Virgin Mary in chastity, poverty, and obedience. But his father opposed his son’s interest in religious life. In 1837, Antony dreams fulfilled, as he was eighteen years old having his father’s permission to become a member of the Congregation of the Servites, taking the religious name of Antony Mary.
He studied classical subjects and theology in the hermit of Monte Senario at Florence. Antony became a priest in 1843. At the end of 1843, Antony became the chapel of the new congregation of St. Andrew in Viareggio on the Tuscan coast, and in 1847 he became parish priest there at the age of only 28 years. In Viarèggio he spent the remaining 45 years of his life. Antony was an excellent parish priest, interested in everyone, children and adults, men and women, and sometimes spent all day in the scripture. His parishioners called him “the little parish priest”.
Death
He died on January 12, 1892, in Viareggio, Italy, 73 years old. All mourned for him, and he was immediately honored by all as a saint, and soon miracles were reported by his grave. The glass coffin with his body is in the church of Sant’Andrea in Viareggio.
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