ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 5th of May WELCOME! BLESSED BENEVENUTO MARENI, RELIGIOUS Blessed Benevenuto Mareni was born in Recanati, Italy. Living in the 13th-century, he became a Franciscan Conventual lay brother in Recanati. HIS ECSTASIES He worked at his monastery as a cook, and spent his free time in prayer. During prayer and Mass he would lapse into ecstacies and receive visions; during one vision he was allowed to hold the Infant Christ. AN ANGEL WAS PREPARING THE MEAL Legend says that once when a trance lasted so long that he was late to his work in the kitchen, he found an angel there already cooking. He died on May 5, 1269 in Recanati, and is interred at the church of San Franceso in Recanati. (Source: catholicsaints.info) PRAYER: O God, who gladden us with the annual feast of blessed Benevenuto, mercifully grant that, while honouring the anniversary of his death, we may also imitate his deeds. Through our Lord Jesu...