14 Facts About Andrew Corsini

Andrea Corsini was an Italian Catholic prelate and professed member from the Carmelites who served as the Bishop of Fiesole from 1349 until his death.

Andrew Corsini led a wild and dissolute life until a rebuke from his mother moved him to go to the Santa Maria del Carmine church where he resolved to join the Carmelites as a priest and friar.

Andrew Corsini exercised various roles in the order, until reluctantly he accepted his episcopal position.

Andrew Corsini was named in honor of Saint Andrew whose feastday it was.

Andrew Corsini was wild in his youth; extravagance and vice were normal to him and it pained his devout mother.

Andrew Corsini went to the Carmelite monastery at the Santa Maria del Carmine church to consider what course to take and despite the entreaties of his dissolute friends, decided to become a friar.

Andrew Corsini joined the Carmelites in Florence in 1318 for his novitiate and began a life of great mortification.

Andrew Corsini was ordained to the priesthood in 1328 and said his first Mass in a hermitage so as to avoid the customary family celebrations.

Andrew Corsini began preaching in Florence, and was then sent for his studies to the University of Paris and later to Avignon, where he resided in with his cousin Cardinal Pietro Andrew Corsini.

Andrew Corsini returned to Florence in 1332 and was chosen as prior of his convent.

Andrew Corsini redoubled his austerities as bishop, wearing a hair shirt and sleeping on a bed of vine-branches.

Andrew Corsini appointed two vicars to aid him in governing his diocese, and enforced discipline amongst the diocesan priests.

In 1675 after his canonization the members of the Andrew Corsini house had the Andrew Corsini Chapel built in the Carmelite church of Santa Maria del Carmine as a more suitable resting place for his remains.

Pope Clement XII - born Lorenzo Andrew Corsini - erected in the Roman Basilica of Saint John Lateran a magnificent chapel dedicated to his kinsman.