Profile of a lesser known saint

From "Dictionary of Saints" by John J. Delaney, Doubleday.

Vici, Blessed Antony (1381-1461)

Of religious parents, he was born at Stroncone, Italy
became a Franciscan lay brother when twelve,
and despite ill health remained religious the rest of his life.
He was deputy master of novices
under B. Thomas of Florence at Fiesole
when he was twenty-six, and in 1421 he
accompanied Thomas on a papal mission to suppress
the heretical Fraticelli in Siena and Sicily,
a mission that lasted ten years.
In 1431, Bl. Antony retired to the friary
of the Carceri near Assisi and spent
the next thirty years there living in great austerity.
He was sent to St. Damian Friary in Assisi
in 1460 and died there on February 8.
Numerous miracles by him were recorded
after his death, and his cult was
confirmed in 1687. He is known as
Bl. Antony of Stroncone.
(February 7)