BARTOLO da SAN GIMIGNANO, beato. - Parish priest, b. in 1228 of a noble family, in the castle of Mucchio near San Gimignano. In order to become a religious he took refuge in Pisa and entered the Franciscan Third Order. Ordained a priest, he exercised charity toward his neighbor heroically, first at Peccioli, then at Picchena. Stricken with leprosy, he lived for twenty years confined in the leper house of San Gimignano near the Pieve di Cello, enduring his illness with such patience that he was called the "Job of Tuscany." He died on 12 Dec. 1300 in the reputation of sanctity and was buried in the church of the Hermits of St. Augustine in San Gimignano. Pope Pius X approved his cult in 1906. Feast day 12 Dec.

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BIBL.: A. Van den Wyngaert, De sanctis et beatis tertii Ordinis, in Archiv. Francisc. Histor., 14 (1921), pp. 18-24; E. Castaldi, Il b. B., il Giobbe della Toscana ed il suo meraviglioso sepolcro di Benedetto da Maiano, Firenze 1928 (with bibliography); I. Boschin-J. Palazzolo, Martyrol. Francisc., Roma 1938, p. 478.

Maria Morseletto

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