Dominic Loricatus

St. Dominic Loricatus — in Italian, San Domenico Loricato — (995‑1060) was an Umbrian saint, born in the Italian village of Luceolis near Cantiano (then in Umbria, now in the Marche). His father, sensing social advancement, paid a bribe to have him ordained a priest when still a child. When he discovered the fact, he resolved on a life of penance and became a hermit in the woods near the abbey of S. Emiliano in Congiuntoli, then a Benedictine monk at the monastery of Fonte Avellana. He owes his name Loricatus to his bodily mortification of wearing a coat of chain mail (Latin: lorica) next to his skin as a hairshirt. He died at the hermitage of S. Vicino. His feast is celebrated by Catholics on October 14.