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Blessed Aloysius Luis Rabata

detail from a holy card of Blessed Aloysius, by Spanish Carmelite Rafael Lopez-Melus; swiped from the Carmelite Province of the Most Pure Heart of Mary Also known as

Luis Rabatá

Memorial

8 May
11 May on some calendars

Profile

Carmelite priest. Prior of the reformed convent in Randazzo, Italy.

Born

c.1430 at Erice, Sicily

Died

murdered in 1490 in Trapani, Italy by a head wound
before he died he forgave his attacker, and refused to say who it was for fear the person would be punished
buried under the main altar at the church at the Carmelite convent in Trapani
some relics transferred to Sicily in 1617
relics transferred to an urn under the altar of the Assumption in the basilica of Santa Maria on 13 August 1913