SAGGIO, Nicola, Blessed. - Minim friar, b. at Longobardi (Cosenza) on 6 Jan. 1650, d. at Rome on 3 Feb. 1709. The son of peasants, he entered the Minims at Paola, professing as an oblate.

He was a questor, porter, and sacristan in various convents of the Province. In 1681 he was sent to Rome to the College of the Calabrian Minims, to which the parochial care was attached, as companion of the parish priest. Everywhere he shone for his regular observance, spirit of penance, profound humility, and loving assistance to the poor. Favored with extraordinary gifts of prayer, he was dear to the pontiffs Innocent XII and Clement XI, who often summoned him into their presence. He was beatified by Pius VI (in 1786, together with his confrere Father Gaspare de Bono, Spanish provincial); his body rests in the Roman conventual church, opposite the monumental chapel of St. Francis of Paola, which the blessed himself had built with the alms he collected.

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BIBL.: G. Perrimuzzi, Vita del servo di Dio N. S., Rome 1713; G. Roberti, Il b. N. S. nel II centenario della morte, ibid. 1909; id., Disegno storico dell'Ordine dei Minimi, III, ibid. 1922, pp. 435-43; E. Frangella, Il b. N. da Longobardi, 2nd ed., Naples 1950.

Gennaro Moretti

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