St Vincent Strambi

Father Justin (nom-de-blog of a parish priest somewhere in England) of Nova et Vetera has been reading Cardinal Wiseman’s Recollections of the Last Four Popes and of Rome in Their Times (the Last Four Popes being Pius VII, Leo XII, Pius VIII and Gregory XVI), which we are fortunate to have in our library but which can also be read online, by courtesy of The Internet Archive. Father Justin highlights what Wiseman wrote concerning Saint Vincent Mary Strambi and Pope Leo XII:
All Rome attributed the unexpected recovery [of the Pope] to the prayers of a saintly bishop, who was sent for, at the Pope’s request, from his distant see of Macerata. This was Monsignor Strambi, of the Congregation of the Passion. He came immediately, saw the Pope, assured him of his recovery, as he had offered up to Heaven his own valueless life in exchange for one so precious. It did indeed seem as if he had transfused his own vitality into the Pope’s languid frame. He himself died the next day, the 31st December [1823], and the Pontiff rose, like one from the grave. (Wiseman, op. cit., page 236)