Fra Angelico
Italian Early Renaissance painter
Feast: 18 February (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Guido di Pietro, born near Vicchio in Tuscany in 1387, joined the Dominicans at Fiesole in 1407 as Fra Giovanni. He began as an illuminator of manuscripts and became a great painter of religious works.
He painted with a pious mysticism, convinced that to picture Christ one must live with Christ; his frescoes adorn the convent of San Marco in Florence. He died in Rome in 1455.
The miracles
The Catholic Encyclopedia does not describe his cause.
Why that counted as sanctity
A friar who prayed his faith into his paintings.
The cause
Fra Angelico has been beatified; the cause continues. Favours received, and offers of help, go to the postulation, the office that carries the cause forward: Dominicans of Spain: Blessed Fra Angelico.
Connected on this site
- Antoninus of Florence Saint“At fifteen he asked Blessed John Dominic to admit him to the Dominicans; accepted a year later, he made his novitiate at Cortona with Fra Angelico.” — this site's research
- John Dominici Blessed“His ideas had a profound influence on the art of Fra Angelico, who entered the Dominicans through him.” — Wikipedia
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), via New Advent - Fra Angelico
- Wikidata Q5664 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Fra Angelico (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.