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[[Beatification|Blessed]] '''Bernardo Scammacca''' (1430 - 11 January 1487) was an [[Italian people|Italian]] [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[priest]] from the [[Order of Preachers]] after leading a dissolute life;<ref name=SM>{{cite web|url=http://saintscatholic.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/blessed-bernard-scammacca-cop.html|publisher=All Saints & Martyrs|title=Blessed Bernard Scammacca, C.O.P.|date=2014|accessdate=2 August 2016}}</ref> his conversion after a sustaining a wound from a duel led him down the path towards the life of a religious life.<ref name=SQPN>{{cite web|url=http://catholicsaints.info/blessed-bernard-scammacca/|title=Blessed Bernard Scammacca|publisher=Saints SQPN|date=11 February 2016|accessdate=2 August 2016}}</ref> He became a noted prophet and spent hours in the confessional.<ref name=FG>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=67037485|title=Bernardo Scammacca|date=17 March 2011|publisher=Find a Grave|accessdate=2 August 2016}}</ref>

Scammacca was well-educated in his childhood.<ref name=SQPN/> Despite his education he spent his adolescence as a wild and dissolute man and during one such revel he received a leg wound in a duel with a man with whom he had quarreled with.<ref name=SEB/> His subsequent convalescence provided him with adequate time with which to reflect on what had happened as well as the course his life had taken. - thisThis made him realize that he was heading in the wrong direction and needed urgent changes. His healing over time renewed his links to his faith and; he approached the [[Order of Preachers]] in 1452 in Catania and begged to be admitted into their ranks.<ref name=SM/><ref name=SQPN/>

HeScammacca became notedknown for his range of charitable works and for his life of repentance - for the life he had led -, as well as for his strict adherence to the rule of [[Saint Dominic]]. He fostered a particular devotion to the [[Passion (Christianity)|Passion of Christ]], and this devotionwhich sometimes led him into ecstasies.<ref name=SQPN/> Scammacca alsoHe founded a hospital for the poor, which at present still exists. ScammaccaHe also liked to spentspend time in the confessional and work as a [[Spiritual direction|spiritual director]]. He also had the gift of being a prophet and used that gift to warn others to change their lives. and heHe also prophesized the date of his own death.<ref name=FG/>

It was often said that when he walked in his convent's garden the birds would come and sing to him, but would stop at once when he stopped to reflect. On one occasion a porter was sent to his room to fetch him, and the man saw a bright light under a door. He peeked in to see a child shining with light holding a book that Scammacca was reading from.<ref name=SQPN/><ref name=SEB/>

Scammacca died in 1487 in Catania. In 1502 it was said that he appeared in a vision to the prior of his convent and asked that his incorrupt remains be relocated the house's chapel. - duringDuring the translation a man was cured of his paralysis after he touched Scammacca's relics.<ref name=SQPN/><ref name=FG/>

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