Matthew Carrieri

Blessed Matthew Carrieri of Mantua (; died 1470) was a Dominican friar noted for the "austerity of his life." He was the spiritual instructor of Stephana de Quinzanis, and like her, an alleged stigmatic.
==Life==
Matthew Carrieri was born Giovanni Francesco Carrieri.The source for this name was in Spanish, and gave Matthew Carrieri's original name as Juan Francisco. It may be reasonable to assume then, that, being Italian, his name would be Giovanni Francesco. He took the name Matteo (Matthew) when he entered the Order of Saint Dominic. His success as a preacher was inarguable, attributable to the significant time he spent in spiritual exercises and meditation between preaching. (Cites Butler's Lives of the Saints as its source) 
One of the major events in Matthew Carrieri's life was his capture by pirates on a voyage from Genoa to Pisa.For an account of this story in Carrieri's life, see Mores Catholici, Or, Ages of Faith by Kenelm Henry Digby (pp. 347-348). The pirates set him free, but when Carrieri saw that the pirates were still keeping a woman and her daughter captive, he proposed to the captain that they keep him in their place. So shocked was the pirate captain by the friar's charity, that he freed all three captives.
Carrieri was a very close associate of Blessed Stephana de Quinzanis in her youth. He was responsible for her catechesis, and predicted that she would be his "spiritual heiress." The meaning of this statement was illuminated when Stephana also began to experience pains similar to Carrieri's, which, according to those concerned, were the result of his devotion to the Passion of Christ.
Carrieri's hagiography states that on 5 October 1470 he asked his superior for permission to die, and upon receiving as much, he did.
==Veneration==
In 1482, Pope Sixtus IV authorized the solemn transfer of Matthew's relics and allowed formal liturgical celebration of Blessed Matthew Carrieri's cultus.
==References and notes==
Category:1470 deaths
Category:People from Mantua
Category:Dominicans
Category:Beatified people
Category:Stigmatics
Category:15th-century venerated Christians
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