MICHELE dei SANTI, saint. - Born at Vich (Barcellona) on 29 Sept. 1591; died at Valladolid on 10 Apr. 1625. He took the habit of the Calced Trinitarians and, shortly afterwards, on 28 Jan. 1608, joined the Discalced, recently founded by the b. G. B. della Concezione. Characteristic of him were the extraordinary transports of love for God and the frequent ecstasies that overtook him everywhere: at Mass, in the refectory, in choir, in the pulpit, and in the street.
He left a treatise, La tranquillità dell'anima, which Menéndez y Pelayo declared “splendid” and “rich in ideas” (Italian translation in Vita e scritti mistici di s. M. dei S., Isola del Liri). He was canonized by Pio IX in 1862. Feast day: 10 Apr.
BIBL.: Didaco della Madre di Dio, Cronaca degli Scalzi della S. ma Trinità, 2nd ed., Buenos Aires 1944; Giuseppe di Gesù e Maria, Vida del ven. estatico P. Fr. Miguel de los Santos, Salamanca 1688; Giuseppe Gros i Raguer, Vida de s. Miguel de los Santos, Barcellona 1936. Nicola dell'Assunta