Joseph of Cupertino, OFM Conv. was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar who is honored as a Christian mystic and saint. According to traditional Franciscan accounts, he was "remarkably unclever", but experienced miraculous levitation and ecstatic visions throughout his life which made him the object of scorn.

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• The City of Copertino
• the City of Osimo
• aviation
• astronauts
• mental handicaps
• examinations
• students

17 June 1603

1663-09-18

canonized

16 July 1767

Pope Clement XIII

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