St. Benvenute Scotivoli

Saint Benvenutus Scotivoli (died 22 March 1282) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Osimo from 1264 until his death. Pope Martin IV canonized him as a saint in 1284. Benvenutus Scotivoli was born sometime in the 1200’s in Ancona. Scotivoli studied at the Bologna College and studied jurisprudence with Saint Silvestro Gozzolini at which point he was ordained to the priesthood when he returned to his hometown. He was made the archdeacon of Ancona and later its apostolic administrator on 1 August 1263 before Pope Urban IV appointed him as the Bishop of Osimo on 13 March 1264. Scotivoli ordained Saint Nicholas of Tolentino to the priesthood in 1269. He died on 22 March 1284 and was buried in the Osimo Cathedral though his remains were moved down to the crypt in July 1590.