A Hermit for the Love of God

In the volume I lustri antichi e moderni della Città di Forlì one reads:

“Although born in Tuscany, he has been recognized as a shoot from the Forlì tree by the Sacred Congregation of Rites itself on January 28, 1752, in the decree by which it granted the Mass and the Office to the City of Forlì, which in the present year 1755, with the unanimous votes of the Councillors, acclaimed him as one of its Protectors.”