Feast day: February 18
Bl. Fra Angelico
A Dominican friar of Florence whose luminous frescoes and altarpieces made him one of the great painters of the early Renaissance, called 'the Angelic' for their beauty.
Pope John Paul II named this painter-friar the patron saint of artists — by tradition he prayed before taking up the brush and wept while painting the Crucifixion.
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