James Salomoni

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name= Blessed James Salomoni
birth_date=1231
death_date=1314
feast_day= May 30
venerated_in= Roman Catholic Church


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birth_place= Venice
death_place= Forlì
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patronage=cancer patients; invoked against tumors
major_shrine= Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
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issues= Blessed James Salomoni ( _it. Giacomo Salomoni) (Venice, 1231 - Forlì, 1314) was a Dominican priest, ascetic, and mystic who is venerated as a beatus by the Catholic Church.

Of the Venetian nobility, Salomoni was brought up by his mother after his father died. His mother later became a Cistercian nun and he was then raised by his grandmother. [Alban Butler, David Hugh Farmer, Paul Burns, "Butler's Lives of the Saints: May" (Liturgical Press, 1995), 177.] He became a Dominican monk at the age of seventeen, and became prior of various places, including Forlì, Faenza, San Severino, and Ravenna. [Alban Butler, David Hugh Farmer, Paul Burns, "Butler's Lives of the Saints: May" (Liturgical Press, 1995), 177.] But Forlì was finally where he settled for the rest of his life. [Alban Butler, David Hugh Farmer, Paul Burns, "Butler's Lives of the Saints: May" (Liturgical Press, 1995), 177.]

He gained fame for healing paralytics and for his prophetic abilities, obtained through a state of religious ecstasy. He lived for 45 years at a convent in Forlì, which considers him a patron and was called there the “father of the poor” ("padre dei poveri"). He also earned fame for being the person who received the confession of Carino of Balsamo, the murderer of Peter of Verona, and became his spiritual father. cite web|url=http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/93353|title= Beato Carino Pietro da Balsamo|date=October 12 2002|publisher=Santi e Beati|accessdate=August 29|accessyear=2008]

Salomoni suffered from cancer for four years, but he was cured some time before his death. [Alban Butler, David Hugh Farmer, Paul Burns, "Butler's Lives of the Saints: May" (Liturgical Press, 1995), 177.]

Veneration

In 1315, a brotherhood was founded to promote veneration for Salomoni. In 1526, his cult was approved for Forlì, and around 1568 for Venice; Pope Gregory XV approved his cult for the Dominicans in 1622. [Alban Butler, David Hugh Farmer, Paul Burns, "Butler's Lives of the Saints: May" (Liturgical Press, 1995), 177.] Salomoni’s remains were conserved in a funereal urn at Forlì, but in 1939, his relics were translated to Venice, in the basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, to the Chapel of Blessed James Salomoni. A shrine was built to Salomoni at Saint Catherine of Siena Church (which is run by the Dominican Order) in Manhattan. [http://www.dominicans-tt.org/causes.htm]

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External links

*it icon [http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/90778 Beato Giacomo (Salomoni) da Venezia]