TOMMASSUCCIO (Thomas Unzio) of Foligno, Blessed. - Franciscan tertiary, author of a prophetic poem, b. at Valmaciniana (Nocera Umbra) in 1319, d. at Foligno on 15 Sept. 1377. His body rests in the church of St. Augustine.

For 24 years he led a life of harsh penance on Monte Regali, near Gualdo Tadino, with his master the blessed Pietro di Regoli or di Gualdo. After the latter's death (1365), he had himself walled into a small cell, in which he lived in prayer for three years. Then, at an angelic summons, he went out to preach penance and submission to the Pope, and traveled through Umbria, Piceno, Tuscany and Liguria, with prodigies and prophecies. Then he returned to Foligno, where he lived for 4 years in a corner of a hospital. Famous is the vision he had of the glory of the Virgin Mary, of St. Francis, of his disciples and of the members of the Third Order faithful to the Rule. His prophetic poem, recited during a kind of ecstasy and written down by his confidant Bartolomeo Lardi, was printed at Vicenza (1510), at Fano, and at Foligno (1566). T. reproves vices and discords, prophesies the imminent fortunes of regions and cities, especially of central Italy. He appears in the Martyr. Franciscanum, Rome 1938, p. 359, under 15 Sept.

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BIBL.: L. Jacobi, Vita del b. Tommaso detto T. del T. O. di s. Francesco, Foligno 1626; L. Amomi, Il profezia del sec. XIV e il b. Tommaso Unzio e il suo tempo, 2nd ed., Assisi 1877; M. Falci Pulignani, Delle profezie del b. T. da Foligno, saggio bibliogr., Foligno 1881; id., Elenco di coloro che scrisse del b. T. da Foligno, in Giorn. stor. della lett. ital., 1 (1883), pp. 211-13; id., Visioni del b. T., in Miscellaneo francesc., 8 (1893), p. 140 ff.; G. Mazzantini, Una profezia attribuita al b. T. da F., ibid., 2 (1887), pp. 3 and 32; R. Renier, Notizie sulle ediz. delle profezie di T. Unzio, in Giorn. degli eruditi e curiosi, 2 (1884), n. 63.

Felice da Mareto

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Tommassuccio (Thomas Unzio) of Foligno, Blessed

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