Francesco Antonio Marcucci

Italian patriarch Date Of Birth : 1717-11-27T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 1798-07-12T00:00:00Z

Francesco Antonio Marcucci (27 November 1717 – 12 July 1798) was a Roman Catholic Italian bishop and a member of the Secular Franciscan Order. Marcucci was also the founder of the Pious Workers of Mary Immaculate.
Marcucci was declared to have lived a life of heroic Christian virtue and was proclaimed to be Venerable in 2010 after Pope Benedict XVI ratified a decree. The miracle that is required for his beatification is now under investigation in the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

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