Blessed Bartholomew Fanti

Today’s Carmelite Blessed:
Blessed Bartholomew Fanti was a Carmelite priest at Mantua, Italy for 35 years. Spiritual director and rector of the Confraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for which he composed a rule and statutes. Spiritual teacher of Blessed John Baptist Spagnuolo. Noted preacher and healer with a strong devotion to the Eucharist. Blessed Fanti was born at Mantua, Italy and he died of natural causes in 1495. He was beatified in 1909.
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