Italian Franciscan friar (1603–1663) who is the most extensively documented case of levitation in the Catholic tradition — reportedly witnessed flying by dozens of credible witnesses including Protestant nobility — and who became one of the most important cases in parapsychological discussions of physical phenomena.
Represents the most heavily documented historical case of apparent physical phenomena associated with religious ecstasy — the sheer volume and quality of witness testimony (including skeptical observers) makes his case the most powerful historical argument that physical phenomena anomalous to naturalism have occurred.
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