History of Pope Celestine V

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SAINT CELESTINE V, pope (1294), Peter di Morone. Born in 1215, the son of a peasant in the Neapolitan district, named Angelario, he became a Benedictine monk at Faifoli in the diocese of Benevento when he was seventeen. He showed from the first an extraordinary disposition to asceticism and solitude, and in 1239 retired to a solitary cavern on the mountain Morone, whence his name. Five years later he left this retreat, and betook himself, with two companions, to a similar cave on the Mountain of Majella in the Abruzzi? region of south Italy, where he lived as strictly as was possible according to the example of St John the Baptist. Terrible accounts are given of the severity of his penitential practices. While living in this manner he founded, in 1244, the order subsequently called after him Celestines.

Sain Celestine V, pope, Peter di Morone (1294). Born in 1215, the son of a peasant in the Neapolitan district, named Angelario, he became a Benedictine monk at Faifoli in the diocese of Benevento when he was seventeen. He showed from the first an extraordinary disposition to asceticism and solitude, and in 1239 retired to a solitary cavern on the mountain Morone, whence his name. Five years later he left this retreat, and betook himself, with two companions, to a similar cave on the Mountain of Majella in the Abruzzi? region of south Italy, where he lived as strictly as was possible according to the example of St John the Baptist. Terrible accounts are given of the severity of his penitential practices. While living in this manner he founded, in 1244, the order subsequently called after him, the Celestines.

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1296. He was buried at Ferentino, but his body was subsequently removed to Aquila. Many commentators and scholars of Dante have thought that the poet stigmatized Celestine V in the enigmatical verse which speaks of him Che fece per viltate il gran rifiuto. [3] Recent opinion on the point more reasonably rejects this interpretation. Celestine V, like the first of the name, is recognized by the church as a saint. No subsequent pope has taken the name 'Celestine.'

1296. He was buried at Ferentino, but his body was subsequently removed to Aquila. Many commentators and scholars of Dante have thought that the poet stigmatized Celestine V in the enigmatical verse which speaks of him Che fece per viltate il gran rifiuto, 'Who made by his cowardice the grand refusal'. [3] Celestine V, like the first of the name, is recognized by the church as a saint. No subsequent pope has taken the name 'Celestine.'

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:[3] "Who made from cowardice the great refusal," Inferno, canto iii. line 60.

:[3] Inferno, canto iii. line 60.