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Saint — Bl. Marcolino Amanni of Forlì

1317 AD, Forlì, Papal States (Amanni family) — January 24, 1397 AD, Forlì

Dominican; 14th-century Emilia-Romagnan Catholic mystic-preacher

Church of San Domenico, Forlì, Italy — his Dominican convent and tomb; Emilia-Romagnan Catholic pilgrim destination, Italy

Feast

January 24

Canonized

Beatified 1750 by Pope Benedict XIV

Life

Marcolino Amanni was born in 1317 at Forlì in the Papal States (Emilia-Romagna). At the age of 10 (1327), he entered the Dominican Order at the Convent of San Domenico at Forlì.

Marcolino spent the 70 years (1327–1397) at the Forlì Dominican Convent — undertaking the hidden vocation of the Dominican simple-brother, without the public preaching or institutional office that characterized his Dominican contemporaries.

His personal vocation was distinguished by the quiet self-effacement: spending his entire life in the choir-office, the refectory-and-cell simple discipline, and the personal charity to the Forlì poor at the convent-gate.

During his lifetime, Marcolino's hidden sanctity was so invisible that his fellow Dominicans regarded him as unremarkable — only after his death did the spontaneous pilgrim-cult at his tomb reveal his previously hidden sanctity.

He died at Forlì on January 24, 1397 at the age of 80.

Miracles & Phenomena

The hidden-humility tradition
Bl. Marcolino Amanni of Forlì's 70-year hidden Dominican life at the Forlì Convent — undertaking the quiet-self-effacing vocation without public preaching or institutional office — establishes the medieval Dominican hidden-humility tradition. The Marcolino-tradition in institutional parallel with the contemporary Dominican hidden-humility traditions of Bl. Jordan Forzatè of Padua and the Dominican hidden-humility saints (including St. Martin de Porres, 1579–1639).

Relics

Body
Tomb of Bl. Marcolino of Forlì
Church of San Domenico, Forlì, Italy — his Dominican convent and tomb
His tomb at the Church of San Domenico at Forlì — the same Dominican convent housing the tomb of Bl. James Salomoni (died 1314 at the same convent) — survives in continuous Catholic Dominican liturgical use.

Iconography

Marcolino at the convent-choir
The 14th-century Forlì Dominican in Dominican black-and-white habit at the choir-office of the Church of San Domenico at Forlì, in the quiet-self-effacing vocation — the iconography of Catholic Dominican hidden-humility tradition.

Patronages

Order of Preachers (Dominicans)Forlì and the Emilia-Romagnan Catholic traditionCatholic hidden humility-of-service tradition

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The hidden-humility tradition