Mariano da Roccacasale

Mariano da Roccacasale (13 January 1778 – 31 May 1866) - born Domenico di Nicolantonio - was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Order of Friars Minor.

[1] He entered the convent of the Order of Friars Minor - Saint Nicholas it was called - in Arischia in 1802 where he would serve as both a cook and gardener in addition to begging for alms until 1815.

[1][4] He collapsed at the foot of the altar - on 23 May 1866 - while in meditation before the Eucharist; he was rushed to his bed and predicted his imminent death and so asked to receive the sacraments for the final time before he died.

He became titled as Venerable - on 3 May 1923 - after Pope Pius XI confirmed the fact that the late religious had lived a model Christian life of heroic virtue.

The miracle that confirmed his beatification was the cure of the infant Luigi Reposini (b. December 1916) from a severe case of encephalitis on 28 March 1918.