DELLA TORRE, ANTONIO, blessed. - A physician of great renown and great holiness, born in Milan in 1424, he took his doctorate at the University of Padua. He was inspired by the conviction that the body could not be healed without first healing the soul.
Disregarding the high reputation he had attained as a physician, he donned the Augustinian habit; having become prior of the house, he humbly wished to escape the growing esteem in which he was held and obtained from his superiors repeated changes of residence (Foligno, S. Giacomo di Galizia). Having moved to Aquila in 1470, during the violent plague epidemic, although already limping from a serious illness that had made one leg shorter, he tirelessly demonstrated, through his skill in treatment, his charity in settling grave disputes among citizens, and his zeal in administering the Sacraments, the level to which his intellectual and moral character had risen. He practised medicine until his death, which occurred at L'Aquila on 24 July 1494. Tradition attributes numerous miracles to him in life and after death. His feast appears in the diocesan Propers of L'Aquila (24 July) and Foligno (27 July), and in that of the Hermits of S. Agostino (24 July).