
Blessed Aloysius Luis Rabata
Also known as: Luis Rabatá
Feast Day
8 May; 11 May on some calendars
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
Beatified
10 December 1841 by Pope Gregory XVI (cultus confirmed)
Biography
Blessed Aloysius Luis Rabata, also known as Luis Rabatá, was a Carmelite priest and the Prior of the reformed convent in Randazzo, Italy. He was born around 1430 in Erice, Sicily, where he grew up and eventually pursued a religious calling.
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