Background
Angelus was born in Jerusalem to a Jewish family. His mother, however, converted to Christianity, and Angelus, along with his twin brother, John, was baptised when she converted.
Angelus was born in Jerusalem to a Jewish family. His mother, however, converted to Christianity, and Angelus, along with his twin brother, John, was baptised when she converted.
They already spoke Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. Around his twenty-sixth year, Angelus was ordained in Jerusalem, and he traveled through Palestine. Various miraculous cures were attributed to him.
His acta states that he sought to avoid fame, and when he was becoming known for his miracles, he withdrew from society to a hermitage.
He went to Sicily, and his fame as a miracle-worker caused crowds to come to him. Catholic tradition states that Berenger was living in incest and that Angelus convinced the knight"s companion to leave Berenger.
Berenger became enraged and killed or had him killed in front of the Church of Steamship Filippo e Giacomo in Licata. He died of his wounds four days after the attack, and according to Catholic tradition, asked for his assassin to be pardoned.
He was buried at Steamship Filippo e Giacomo.
His sepulcher at Licata became a site of pilgrimage. His relics were translated to a new church in Licata, South. Maria del Carmine. The ending of a plague in the Kingdom of Naples in 1656 was attributed to his intercession.