How cool would it be to know a Saint? Or know the relative of a Saint from your neighborhood?

How cool would it be… to be a relative of a Canonized Saint? Or know someone from your neighborhood who is a relative of a Saint? Come to St. Mikes tomorrow and find out! A special Feast Day Mass will be celebrated tomorrow March 29 at 6:00 pm at St. Michael’s Church to honor Arcangelo Palmenteri, now known as Saint Ludovico of Casoria…and yes he is a descendant of the Palmenteri Family, longtime parishioners of St. Michael’s Church in Atlantic City. Saint Ludovico's picture is attached with his history below. ********************************************************************************* Arcangelo Palmentieri, was born in Casoria, near Naples, on 11 March 1814. He apprenticed as a cabinet maker in his youth. He entered the novitiate of the Order of the Friars Minor on 1 July 1832, taking the name Ludovico. Friar Ludovico taught philosophy, mathematics, and chemistry to the younger members of the Order at the Franciscan priory of Saint Peter in Naples. Ludovico reported having a mystical experience in 1847, after which he embarked on a lifetime of establishing works to care for the poor and needy of the time, founding dispensaries and orphanages. About 1852 he opened a school for the education of African boys and girls redeemed from slavery. He also founded institutions for the deaf and the mute. He also worked to provide care for the elderly members of his own Order. In addition to an infirmary for friars of his province, he began charitable institutes in Naples, Florence and Assisi. He instituted a community of men as a religious congregation of the Franciscan Third Order Regular at San Pietro. The group was composed of men who had belonged to the Secular Franciscans known as the Gray Friars of Charity. Three years later, he instituted likewise a congregation of religious women, known as the Franciscan Sisters of St. Elizabeth. The work of the friars spread to the United States, where they served the Italian American community in New Jersey; the Holy See formally approved the friars in 1877. Due to the small number of members still in the congregation, the Holy See disbanded the friars in 1971. A new group of men and women, dedicated to his vision, however, currently exists in the process of forming. He died in 1885 and was canonized in 2014. The Franciscan Sisters of Saint Elizabeth currently serve in Italy, the USA, Ethiopia, India, Panama and the Philippines. He died in 1885 and was canonized in 2014. .