Browsing Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences by Subject "Afro-Sicilian Hagionym"
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St. Benedict of San Fratello (Messina, Sicily): An Afro-Sicilian Hagionym on Three Continents
(York University, 2009)Benedetto Manasseri da San Fratello (Messina, Sicily) became the first black canonical saint in 1807. The Sicilian-born son of African parents (1524), was first a hermit, and then a lay friar of the reformed minor order ...