Ignazio da Laconi, blessed by the people even before by the Church

Laconi, on the 29th of August, celebrates its fellow citizen Francisco Ignazio Vincenzo Peis, humble cappuccino monk venerated in all Sardinia and famous to be called simply as fra’ Ignazio. He was born in Laconi, in the far 1701. People loved him for his simplicity and charity for the poor, beyond for its taumaturgic abilities. Skills that made him to be considered a saint by the people, much before his official beatification.

Among his many miracles, assessed by the Vatican, there is the one of the enormous quantitative of oil poured in the saddlebag that he used to have always with him: an inexplicable fact, that induced the commander of a mercantile ship to gave him as a present a barrel full of the same olive. The barrel was carried to the cappuccino convent of Cagliari, in the avenue that was subsequently dedicated to the monk, and it stayed there until the 1836.

The 29th of August is the date in which the is celebrated the Day of the sick, while the 31st is dedicated to the pilgrims that come also from other Italian regions to visit the natal house of Sant’Ignazio and the church that conserves his reliquary.