Saint michael of the saints biography

Spanish saint (1591–1625)

For the archangel, see Michael (archangel). For other Saints Michael, see Saint Michael (disambiguation).

Michael de Sanctis (Catalan: Miquel dels Sants) (29 September 1591 – 10 April 1625), sometimes called Michael of the Saints, was a DiscalcedTrinitarian born in Vic, a city of Catalonia, Spain.

Life

Born Michael Argemir, at Vic, Catalonia, his parents died while he was still young, and he was apprenticed to a merchant.^[2] At the age of twelve, he came to Barcelona and asked to be received into the monastery of the Trinitarians there.

After a three-year novitiate, he took his vows at that order's monastery of St. Lambert at Zaragoza in 1607.^[3]

After meeting a Discalced Trinitarian one day, he felt drawn to that congregation's more austere lifestyle and, after much deliberation and the permission of his superior, he entered the congregation of the Discalced Trinitarians at Madrid as a novice.