Arcangelo Canetoli

Arcangelo Canetoli (1460 - 16 April 1513) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a canon regular of Santa Maria di Reno.

[3] He soon after entered the canons regular of Santa Maria di Reno (an order that originated from Venice) on 29 September 1484 and was later ordained to the priesthood in 1498.

[1] Canetoli lived at the Eremo di Sant'Ambrogio, a mountainside monastery in Gubbio from 1498 after being made a priest and would remain there for the rest of his life; he requested this transfer himself.

[2] Canetoli predicted that Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici would be elected as pope sometime soon, and when this cardinal became Pope Leo X in 1513, the Leo's brother Giuliano de' Medici summoned Canetoli to Florence in an attempt to persuade him to become the new Archbishop of Florence.

[1] His beatification received formal ratification on 2 October 1748 from Pope Benedict XIV after the latter confirmed that there existed a local 'cultus' - otherwise known as popular veneration - that endured since the late priest's death.