Name

Michelangelo di Candia Farolfi

Original name

Main activity

Friar

Secondary activity

Preacher of the Papal Household

Title

Bishop

Name variations

Farolfi, Michelangelo di Candia"

Education place

Education institution

Activity place

Trogir, Vatican City

Activity institution

Roman Catholic Diocese of Tragurium, Vatican

Activity start date

1713

Activity end date

1715

Place of birth

Heraklion

Date of birth

1648

Place of death

Date of death

1715

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/Michelangelo%20di%20Candia/library

Descriptive card

He was a Franciscan friar who took part in the Morean War. He was the last Preacher of the Papal Household of the Franciscan order (then the position was reserved to the Capuchins), before being appointed Bishop of Trogir (Croatia) in 1713. During the siege of Koroni (GR) in Morea he looted a copy of the Qur'an (BML, Or. 233) from the Great Mosque of the city and in 1686 donated it to the church of Santa Maria di Araceli in Rome where it was hung off an altar dedicated to S. Giovanni da Capestrano.

Entry author

Sara Fani