Pietro Corradini (1435 – 25 July 1490) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Order of Friars Minor.
[1] Corradini served in several leadership positions within his order which bought him into contact with the likes of James of the Marches and Camilla Battista da Varano - he was her confessor and spiritual director - while in turn being a well-known figure due to his mild mannered nature and for his preaching abilities.
His path seemed destined towards the legal profession though in 1467 he attended a sermon that a popular monk presided over and then went up to him and asked to be admitted as a Franciscan.
Corradini also preached at one stage a crusade against the Ottoman Empire and served on three occasions as the Franciscan provincial for the Marche region; his first was in 1477 followed with appointments in 1483 and 1489.
The beatification process commenced not too long after the priest's death and culminated on 10 August 1760 after Pope Clement XIII issued a formal decree that approved Corradini's local 'cultus' - or popular veneration - thus approving the beatification itself.