Today, December 5, is the memorial of Blessed Bartolomeo Fanti.
Bartolomeo was born in Mantua, Italy in 1428. He was a Carmelite priest for 35 years. He served as spiritual director and rector of the Confraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for which he composed a rule and statutes.
He was also the spiritual teacher of Blessed John Baptist Spagnuoli and was a noted preacher and healer with a strong devotion to the Eucharist.
He died in 1495 at age 67. He was beatified in 1909 by Pope St. Pius X.