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Italy off the beaten path, Osimo and San Giuseppe Sanctuary

He started being rejected from the Church because too clumsy and unworthy, then when he manifested the gift of levitation had to be put away to protect him from popular curiosity and the troubling interest of the Inquisition.

People flocked to meet the flying young priest and he had to be tried by the Inquisition.

When he levitaded in front of the tribunal, the judges were convinced of his innocence and sent him to a remote place where they hoped his fame was going to die.

But wherever he went, he was preceded by his fame and the crowd followed him.

Finally he was left in peace in Osimo where he spent his last peaceful years and he eventually died. The city of Osimo dedicated to San Giuseppe a church where you can visit the chambers where he lived and a vast array of mementos. The friars will enthusiastically show you an impressive collection of ex-voto (gifts from devotee for a received grace).

The ex-voto are mainly from students and catastrophe survivors because he is said to be the helper of desperate causes, the mediocre students and aviators.

If you need help and comfort, address your payers to this unusual saint and your petitions might be acknowledged.

Osimo is a lovely historical town with a rich and intriguing past. Particularly impressive is the maize of underground caves that almost amounts to a city itself.


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