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Blessed Sebastian Maggi
Blessed Sebastian Maggi

Blessed Sebastian Maggi

Blessed
Post-Congregation

Feast Day

December 16

Beatified

15 April 1760 by Pope Clement XIII (cultus confirmed)

Religious Order

Dominican

Biography

Blessed Sebastian Maggi, also known as Sebastian of Brescia, was born in 1414 to the noble Maggi family in Brescia, Italy. At the young age of 15, Sebastian joined the Dominican Order in Brescia in 1429. Despite his early entrance into the Order, it was the earliest that the Dominicans would accept him.

Cause for Canonization

Beatified
Beatified1760-04-15 by 15 April 1760 by Pope Clement XIII (cultus confirmed)

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