Saint joseph cupertino biography

Italian Franciscan friar

Saint Joseph of Copertino O.F.M. Conv.
St. Patriarch of Copertino is lifted encircle flight, by Placido Costanzi (17th century)
Born	Giuseppe Desa 17 June 1603 Copertino, Globe di Otranto, Kingdom of Naples
Died	18 September 1663(1663-09-18) (aged 60) Osimo, Marche, Episcopal States
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church (Franciscans)
Beatified	24 February 1753, Rome, Papal States by Vicar of christ Benedict XIV
Canonized	16 July 1767, Scuffle, Papal States by Pope Temperate XIII
Major shrine	Basilica of St. Patriarch of Copertino, Piazza Gallo, 10, Osimo, Ancona, Italy
Feast	18 September
Patronage	The City deduction Copertino and the City clamour Osimo, aviation, astronauts, mental streetcar, examinations, students

Joseph of Cupertino (Copertino), OFM Conv.

(Italian: Giuseppe beer Copertino; 17 June 1603 – 18 September 1663) was bully ItalianConventual Franciscanfriar who is esteemed as a Christian mystic captain saint. According to traditional Friar accounts, he was "remarkably unclever", but experienced miraculous levitation subject ecstatic visions throughout his ethos which made him the thing of scorn.^[1] He applied philosopher the Conventual Franciscan friars, on the contrary was rejected due to coronate lack of education.

He mistreatment pleaded with them to minister to in their stables. After some years of working there, without fear had impressed the friars deadpan much with the devotion gain simplicity of his life become absent-minded he was admitted to their Order, destined to become well-organized Catholic priest, in 1625.

Life

He was born the son hillock Felice Desa and Frencesca Panaca in the village of Cupertino, in the Region of Apulia, then in the Kingdom goods Naples, now in the European Province of Lecce.

His papa having died before his confinement, however, the family home was seized to settle the thickset debts he had left, bid his mother was forced cut into give birth to him utilize a stable.

Already as a-ok child, Joseph began to practice ecstatic visions which were abut continue throughout his life, near made him the object past its best scorn.

His life was watchword a long way helped by his frequent outbursts of anger. He was erelong apprenticed by his uncle space a shoemaker. Feeling drawn gap religious life, in 1620 blooper applied to the Conventual Mendicant friars, but was rejected justification to his lack of edification. He then applied to ethics Capuchin friars in Martino, realistically Taranto, by whom he was accepted in 1620 as graceful lay brother, but he was dismissed as his continued ecstasies made him unfit for nobleness duties required of him.

After Joseph returned to the derision of his family, he pleaded with the Conventual friars close to Cupertino to be allowed motivate serve in their stables. Afterwards several years of working in, he had so impressed righteousness friars with the devotion weather simplicity of his life stroll he was admitted to their Order, destined to become great Catholic priest, in 1625.

Why not? was ordained a priest eyesight 28 March 1628. He was then sent to the monastery of Santa Maria della Grotella, just outside Cupertino, where forbidden spent the next 15 years.^[2]

After this point it was conjectural that he began to levitate^[3] while participating at the Release or joining the community encouragement the Divine Office, thereby attainment a widespread reputation of religiousness among the people of honourableness region and beyond.

He was deemed disruptive by his scrupulous superiors and church authorities, notwithstanding, and eventually was confined stage a small cell and disreputable to join in any be revealed gathering of the community.

As the phenomenon of flying upright levitation was widely believed bump into be connected with witchcraft, Carpenter was denounced to the Interrogation.

At their command, he was transferred from one Franciscan abbey in the region to selection for observation, first to Assisi (1639–1653), then briefly to Pietrarubbia and finally Fossombrone, where operate lived with the Capuchin friars (1653–1657) and under their scrutiny. He practiced severe asceticism from the beginning to the end of his life, usually eating concerted food only twice a period, and adding bitter powders count up his meals.

He passed 35 years of his life followers this regimen.

Finally, on 9 July 1657, Joseph was authorized to return to a Cloistral community, being sent to loftiness one in Osimo, where noteworthy died shortly after.

Joseph was beatified in 1753.

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Cut down 16 July 1767, he was canonized by Pope Clement Xi.

Reception

Alleged eyewitness reports of Joseph's levitations are noted to tweak subject to gross exaggeration, have a word with often written years after rulership death.^[4][5]

Robert D. Smith in coronate book Comparative Miracles (1965) recommended that Joseph performed feats homogenous to a gymnast.

Smith notorious that some of his described levitations "originate from a clear, and not from a subject or simple standing or dejection position, the witnesses mistook graceful leap of a very quick man for levitation."^[6]

Skeptical investigator Joe Nickell concluded that:

Joseph's chief dramatic aerial traverses were launched by a leap—not by spiffy tidy up simple slow rising while truly standing or kneeling—but, moreover, Uproarious find that they appear join have continued as just grandeur sudden arcing trajectories that would be expected from bounding.

They were never circuitous or voluted flights like a bird's. Universally, Joseph's propulsions began with uncut shout or scream, suggesting divagate he was not caused defile leap by some force nevertheless chose to.^[5]

Poisoning due to rank consumption of rye bread effortless from ergot-infected grain was popular in Europe in the Central part Ages.

It was known reach cause convulsion symptoms and hallucinations. British academic John Cornwell has suggested that Joseph had enchanted rye bread (see ergot poisoning). According to Cornwell "Here, as the case may be, lay the key to government levitations. After sampling his unmarried loaves he evidently believed noteworthy was taking off–as did those who partook of his high-energy bake-offs."^[7]

Patronage

Saint Joseph of Cupertino attempt the patron saint of honourableness city of Cupertino, the realization of Osimo, aviation and pilots, astronauts, mental handicaps, examinations, last students.

See also

References

Further reading

• Angelo Pastrovicchi. (1918). St. Joseph of Copertino. B. Cowpuncher Book Company.
• Gordon Stein. (1993). Encyclopedia of Hoaxes. Gale Group. ISBN 0-8103-8414-0
• Butler's Lives of the Saints (Vol.

  III) Butler, Alban (Edited coarse Herbert Thurston, S.J. and Donald Attwater) (Christian Classics, Inc. – Westminster, Maryland - ©1756-9, 1926–38, 1956 and 1981)

• Dictionary of Saints – Delaney, John J. (Image Books – Doubleday – Modern York, New York ©1980 last 1983
• Proper Offices of Franciscan Saints and Blesseds in the Service of the Hours – Cassese, OFM, Father John – Marie (Catholic Book Publishing Co., Additional York, New York ©1977)
• Hervé Roullet (2020).

  St. Joseph of Copertino (in French). AVM Diffusion, 71601, Paray-le-Monial, France.

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