The Saint of the day June 23 is San Lanfranco Beccari, which name day is celebrated and other saints who are celebrated on this date.
San Lanfranco Beccari
Born in Gropello in the province of Pavia around 1124, Lanfranco was assigned the role of bishop for his city by Alexander III.
Very kind to good people, but uncompromising to the unjust, he led an exemplary life, characterized by prayer and charity towards the needy.
He had heated discussions against the city civil authorities who wanted to take possession of various ecclesiastical goods.
For this reason, finding himself almost forced to leave Pavia, he went to Rome to find comfort and support from the pope.
When he returned to Pavia, now tired of the constant problems that public life was giving him, he decided to retire to the Vallombrosan monastery of San Sepolcro, where he remained until his death, which took place, with good approximation, on 23 June 1198.
This is what is written in the letter sent by Innocent III to the bishop of Faenza, Bernardo, on August 8, 1198, in which the passage to the diocese of Pavia was proposed as successor to the late Lanfranco.
And it was Bernardo himself who, as successor bishop, wrote the first biography of Lanfranco.
San Lanfranco is usually represented in different paintings, such as in the painting by Cima da Conegliano which is located in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, dressed in pontifical clothes while he is making a gesture of blessing.
Other saints and celebrations of June 23
- San Bili (Bilio)
- St. Eteldreda di Ely
- June 17: saint of the day, name day
- June 9: saint of the day, name day
- June 12: saint of the day, name day
- June 4: saint of the day, name day
- June 26: saint of the day, name day
- San Giuseppe Cafasso
- Blessed Maria of Oignies
- Holy Martyrs of Nicomedia
- Blessed Pietro Giacomo from Pesaro
- Blessed Raffaella Santina Cimatti
- St. Thomas Garnet
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