[1] He soon felt the desire to embrace priestly life, therefore, having obtained paternal approval, on June 5, 1881 he entered the Archbishop's Seminary of Palermo, preceded by the fame of “Converted”.

[4] During the four years of stay in the Seminary, Vincenzo increased his love for the Eucharist to the point of contriving, through a game of mirrors, a way to see the tabernacle from the hall of physics and so to pray day and night, escaping curious looks.

[7] Welcomed by the Provincial Minister Father Eugenio Scamporlino, on February 14, 1885 he received the dress of the Capuchin novice and the new name: "brother Giuseppe Maria of Palermo", thus beginning the year of trial.

[8] The austere standard of living soon collided with the health of the young man who, as early as November 1885, blamed the unequivocal symptoms of pneumonia that would lead to his death in a short time.

On March 3, 2013, by the Archdiocese of Syracuse, a supplementary inquiry into the continuity of the reputation of holiness of the servant of God was launched at the request of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, ending with the meeting and the final report of the Diocesan Tribunal, in the presence of the Archbishop Salvatore Pappalardo, on May 10, 2016.