Christopher (Italian Cristoforo) was born around 1410 at Milan. He entered the Dominican Order at Milan and became one of the principal late-15th-century Dominican Observant preachers of northern Italy.
In 1460, Christopher undertook the reform of the Dominican Convent of Santa Maria del Canneto at Taggia in Liguria — producing the strict Observant discipline. He served as prior of the Taggia convent until his death in 1484.
He died at Taggia on March 1, 1484.
Bl. Christopher of Milan's reform of the Dominican Convent of Santa Maria del Canneto at Taggia in Liguria — establishing the strict Observant discipline — establishes the Ligurian Dominican-Observant tradition of the late 15th century.
His tomb at the Convent of Santa Maria del Canneto at Taggia survives in continuous Catholic Dominican liturgical use.
The mid-15th-century Dominican Observant in Dominican black-and-white habit at the Convent of Santa Maria del Canneto at Taggia — the iconography of Catholic Ligurian Dominican-Observant tradition.
