[2] He became noted for his love of contemplative silence in which to meditate on the Gospel while also preaching sermons and missions in the Papal States and in other Italian cities all on the subject of repentance.
[1] His fame for personal holiness spread at a rapid pace even to the ears of Pope Sixtus IV who named him as the "Apostolic Preacher".
[1] In 1483 he served as prior of the San Marcello convent in Rome and there decided to retire with six others to a hermitage after receiving papal permission to do so; he might have spent time in Monte Senario.
[1][2] In 1507 the Lieutenant Andrea Loredan was on a trip from Venice to Udine when he fell ill and was cured after turning to the late Tornielli for healing.
[3] His remains were relocated to the private home of a Servite priest - due to the Napoleonic invasion - and later to the church of SS.