Story of the Blessed Andrea Xueres op, from Syracuse

Our Lady of the Rosary on the altar where are placed Blessed Andrea Xueres' bones

Third part

The same Syracusan civil authorities often resorted to him to seek advice and suggestions of all kinds. He left Syracuse only in the two-year period 1430-1432 when he was Prior of the Convent of Saint Dominic in Bologna. Because of the worsening of his health he returned to Syracuse.

Ottavio Gaetani tells us that in 1434 << he returne his beautiful soul to the Creator on the same day, December 25th, when Jesus on earth and he was born in Heaven >>. His death left the City breathless. At his solemn funeral in Saint Dominic, all the citizenship came and for that day the Town Magistrate proclaimed the mourning and the closure of all public offices.

The Preachers Fathers initially wanted to put his body in the common burial. In 1478, on Holy Thursday, a woman with a little daughter who had dumb since the age of ten arrived in Saint Dominic. The little girl wanted to go to the sacristy to drink. It was then that she saw a Dominican friar come out from the tomb and mark her mouth with the sign of the Cross. The girl returned to her mother laughing and shouting with joy. The mother, upset, didn’t even doubt for a moment that this miracle was operated by the intercession of Andrea Xueres. Since that, many people went to the tomb where the body of the blessed Andrea was buried, which in the meantime had been placed in another more suitable burial.