Jeremiah of Wallachia (born 29 June 1556 - 26 February 1625) was a Romanian-born Capuchin lay brother who spent his entire adult life serving as an infirmarian of the Order in Italy.
Few details have survived of his childhood and youth, other than that as a child he had developed the conviction that he wanted to go to Italy because that was where the best Christians were to be found.
His mother told him it was a place "where the monks were all holy and there was the pope, the Vicar of Christ"; the fact that he was illiterate and knew his own dialect and no other language did not hinder his decision.
After a long journey during which he served as a physician's assistant, he arrived in Bari, Italy, where he settled at the age of 22.
Jeremiah felt such a commitment to the poverty that is a hallmark of the Franciscan Order that he is said to have spent 35 years wearing the same habit.
On 26 February of that year, a great personage at the Spanish royal court (Torre del Greco) was seriously ill, and summoned Jeremiah to care for him.
On a long walk from the monastery a woman tells him: His return to Naples witnessed him contracting pleuropneumonia; he died of that on 5 March 1625.
He believed that God was merciful love but also applied this to the Trinity, the Passion of Jesus Christ, the Eucharist, the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Universal Church; he extended this with his belief that humankind was the gift of the Lord's merciful love.
[10] The cause for Jeremiah's beatification was started on 3 September 1687,[10] but remained stalled until 1905, at which time a biography of his life was published in Naples, entitled Vita di Fra Geremia Valacco.
He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 30 October 1983 following the recognition of a singule miracle attributed to his intercession.