Blessed Grimoaldo

Today Passionists celebrate the feast of Blessed Grimoaldo (Santamaria) of the Purification, who was a member of the Passionist community at Santa Maria di Corniano, near Ceccano, south of Rome, where he died of meningitis at the age of nineteen. Father Gary has a number of interesting posts on Grimoaldo, including one on the miracle approved for his 1995 Beatification. I remember hearing about it in Rome at the time it was being examined. This is a very unusual miracle in modern times, as it was not a case of someone being cured after an illness, but was rather a miraculous escape from certain death in a tractor accident. You can read about it here.