Saint of the day May 5: Saint Angel. Catholic Saints

Saint Angel had a vision of Christ that showed him the faces of two great saints: Saint Dominic de Guzmán and Saint Francis of Assisi. Then, the Savior told him: “There are two new and firm columns of the Church,” alluding to the two great founders of the mendicant orders: Dominicans and Franciscans, respectively.

Conversion fruits

Once this stage was concluded, Saint Angel would be sent as a preacher to the island of Sicily (Italy), with the purpose of instructing and converting the followers of ‘Catharism’ (a heresy that condemned the sacrament of marriage, denied the resurrection of the dead and proposed an erroneous understanding of Christian moral doctrine; its supporters called themselves ‘the pure’). With the help of God, the saint was successful in converting many of the heretics; and thanks to his Jewish ancestry, he managed to bring the Gospel to many of his countrymen. It is even said that he managed to convert more than 200 Jews in Palermo.