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Blessed — James of Bevagna

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Bl. James of Bevagna
c. 1220 AD, Bevagna, Umbria (Italian Umbrian family) — August 15, 1301 AD, Bevagna, Umbria
early Dominican; founder of the Dominican convent of Bevagna and Perugia
Church of San Domenico e Giacomo, Bevagna, Umbria, Italy — his Dominican convent-foundation; his tomb in the parish church of the medieval Umbrian pilgrim tradition, Italy
Feast
August 15 (death); December 23 (translation of relics)
Canonized
Beatified December 3, 1400 by Pope Boniface IX
Life

James (Italian Giacomo) was born around 1220 in Bevagna in Umbria to an Italian Umbrian family. He entered the Dominican Order in his youth — personally admitted by St. Dominic himself (per tradition) or by his immediate successor Bl. Jordan of Saxony.

James founded the Dominican convent at Bevagna around 1275 — his personal foundation on the site of his family manor. He subsequently founded the Dominican convent at Perugia (one of the principal Umbrian Dominican foundations).

James was famous during his lifetime for his ministry of visionary preaching and personal Marian devotion. His most famous miraculous episode was the reception, during a Mass at his Bevagna convent, of a vision of the Christ-Child appearing at the altar during the elevation of the sacred host — establishing his Eucharistic-mystical devotion in the Umbrian Catholic tradition.

He died at Bevagna on August 15, 1301, at the age of approximately 81.

Miracles & Phenomena

  • The Eucharistic vision at Bevagna

    Bl. James of Bevagna's Eucharistic vision at the altar of his Bevagna convent — the Christ-Child appearing at the elevation of the sacred host — became one of the principal Umbrian Dominican Eucharistic-devotional narratives.

Relics
  • Body
    Tomb of Bl. James of Bevagna
    Church of San Domenico e Giacomo, Bevagna, Umbria, Italy — his Dominican foundation

    His tomb at the Church of San Domenico e Giacomo at Bevagna survives in continuous Catholic parish use.

Iconography
  • James of Bevagna receiving the Eucharistic vision

    The late-13th-century Dominican in Dominican black-and-white habit at the altar of the Bevagna convent elevating the sacred host, the Christ-Child appearing above the host — the iconography of Catholic Dominican Eucharistic-vision tradition.

Patronages
Order of Preachers (Dominicans)Bevagna and the Umbrian Catholic traditionCatholic Dominican-early-founding tradition in central Italy
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