Nicola da Forca Palena

[3] He became a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis and became noted for penitential acts and those austere methods that defined his life.

He undertook a pilgrimage to Rome where he visited the tombs of each of the apostles and there felt a call to lead a more austere mode of life.

[1] There he met Blessed Pietro Gambacorta, who with him became the founder of the congregation of poor hermits of St. Jerome, and a fraternal friendship was born between the two.

He founded the Santa Maria della Grazie hermitage in Sperlonga in Naples and a hospice at the square of Sant'Agnello.

[5] The beatification process culminated on 27 August 1771 after Pope Clement XIV issued a formal decree that ratified the fact that there existed an enduring popular veneration.