Arcangelo Placenza da Calatafimi

Born at Calatafimi, (province and Diocese of Trapani), at about 1390 in the local noble family of the Placenza, he left his paternal home and went to live in a cave, near the church of Santa Maria del Giubino, where we experienced frequent apparitions of the Virgin, who would appear him over a cypress while he was praying.

[1] After the news of the apparitions and miracles spread, the place became increasingly frequented by believers, and relatives tried to persuade him to give up his intentions.

In search of meditation, Arcangelo moved to Alcamo, where he cared for sick people in the old hospital of Sant'Antonio, which he restored after a period of neglect.

After the suppression of hermits in Sicily by Pope Martino V, he became a friar of the Minor Order of Observants in Palermo, of the convent of Santa Maria di Gesù.

He lived in the convent of Santa Maria di Gesù in Alcamo until his death on 24 July 1460.