Paoli, Angelo, Venerable (PAOLI, ANGELO, VENERABILE) - Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. IX, p. 439

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

PAOLI, ANGELO, venerable. - Carmelite, born in Argigliano in 1642, died in Rome in 1720. At the age of eighteen he took the habit at Fivizzano and completed his studies in the convents of Siena, Pisa, and Firenze. He laudably carried out the priestly ministry in various convents of the province of Toscana (where he was also master of novices) until, in 1687, he was assigned by the general Paolo di S. Ignazio to the convent of S. Martino ai Monti in Rome, where he remained until his death. A reputation for holiness surrounded him during his lifetime, particularly for his

Article illustration — (phot. Alinari) PAOLI, PASQUALE - Portrait, painted by R. Cosway. Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi.

a spirit of prayer and penance, through visits to hospitals and the distribution of alms; therefore, after his death, the process for his beatification was initiated. In 1781 his virtues were declared heroic by Pio VI.
A fruit of his charity was the foundation of a hospital for needy convalescents near S. Giovanni in Laterano. He had the Colosseum closed in order to save it from the profanations to which it was subjected.

BIBL: P. T. Cacciari, Della vita, virtù e doni soprannaturali del... p. A. P., Roma 1756. Bartolomeo M. Xiberta