ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY
Saints celebrated on the 11th of January
VINCENZO DANDINI, RELIGIOUS
Born in Florence, Vincenzo Dandini (Vincentius), in his 34th year, entered the Society of Jesus as a lay brother. Having practiced all the virtues from a tender age, he now became, as all who came into contact with him testified, a veritable saint.
In the world he had pursued the art of painting and continued it in the monastery. In his biography (Hausherr, Sanctified Handwork, p. 219 ff.) he is therefore called the "Angelic painter."
He passed away on January 11, 1734, after almost four years of severe suffering, which he endured with great patience. His dead body became brilliantly white as a lily, and his spiritual father, to whom he used to communicate all matters of conscience, exclaimed after his death: "O what an exalted place he occupies in heaven! I will read the prescribed Masses for him, but I am convinced that he no longer needs them; I know what heroic acts of virtue this brother practiced."
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 5, Augsburg, 1882, p. 732)
Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations
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