He confided in a friend, Luisa Vannucci from Loro Piceno, who encouraged him to enter religious life.

Immediately, he left for Tolentino and presented himself to the Capuchin minister provincial, expecting to be admitted that very day.

[1] After he completed a year of probation, Felix received the religious name Seraphin (or in Italian, Serafino, meaning "seraph").

Friars testified that, after everyone else had gone to bed, they would often hear him walking toward the church to spend the night in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament.

[3] Seraphin's physical appearance was described as that of a peasant: hair always rumpled, clumsy at manual tasks, and mainly illiterate.

He explained, "When I entered religious life I was a poor, unskilled laborer, lacking both talent and potential.

I remained as I was, and this caused so many humiliations and rebukes which the devil used as opportunities to tempt me to leave religious life and retreat to some desert, withdrawing into myself.

I entrusted myself to the Lord, and one night I heard a voice coming from the tabernacle say, 'To serve God you must die to yourself and accept adversity, of whatever type.'

'"[1] Recollections sustain that Seraphin was endowed with the gift of reading the secrets of hearts, and with that of miracles and prophecy.

His reputation reached as far as the Dukes of Bavaria and Parma, the Peopli nobles of Bologna, and Cardinal Ottavio Bandini.

In keeping with the spirituality prevalent at the time, Seraphin had a personal devotion of serving as many Masses as possible.

Chuckling, Seraphin responded, "As far as that goes, choose Ursula and Companions," indicating that throughout her life the woman would give birth to a succession of girls.

In the papal bull of canonization, the illiterate and physically clumsy Capuchin was acclaimed as a person who "knew how to read and understand the great book of life which is our Savior, Jesus Christ.