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Saint — Bl. James Salomoni

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Bl. James Salomoni
1231 AD, Venice, Republic of Venice (noble Venetian Salomoni family) — May 25, 1314 AD, Forlì, Papal States
Venetian Dominican; Venetian Dominican preacher-saint
Church of San Domenico, Forlì, Italy — his tomb; the Emilia-Romagnan Dominican pilgrim destination, Italy
Feast
May 25
Canonized
Beatified December 26, 1526 by Pope Clement VII
Life

James (Italian Giacomo) Salomoni was born in 1231 to the noble Venetian Salomoni family. At the age of 17 (1248), he entered the Dominican Order at Venice.

James served as Dominican prior at multiple Dominican convents across northern Italy — including Bergamo, Faenza, and Forlì — becoming famous during his lifetime for his ministry of preaching, spiritual direction, and personal charity.

During his final years at Forlì, James suffered from a painful cancer — endured with the patient Catholic suffering that established his patronage of cancer sufferers.

He died at Forlì on May 25, 1314, at the age of 83.

Miracles & Phenomena

  • The Venetian Dominican preacher-tradition

    Bl. James Salomoni's sixty-six-year Dominican life (1248–1314) — serving as prior at multiple northern Italian Dominican convents — established the Venetian Dominican preacher-tradition of the late 13th and early 14th centuries.

Relics
  • Body
    Tomb of Bl. James Salomoni
    Church of San Domenico, Forlì, Italy — his tomb

    His tomb at the Church of San Domenico at Forlì survives in continuous Catholic Dominican liturgical use.

Iconography
  • James Salomoni preaching

    The late-13th-century Venetian Dominican in Dominican black-and-white habit at the Dominican pulpit preaching to the congregation — the iconography of Catholic Venetian Dominican preacher-tradition.

Patronages
Order of Preachers (Dominicans)Venice (Republic of Venice) and the Venetian Catholic traditionForlì and the Emilia-Romagnan Catholic traditionCatholic cancer sufferers (his personal illness during his final years)
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