had a sister who was a Poor Clare in their native city of Sezze, Italy. Her name in Religion was Sister Mary Frances of Jesus.  He recounted:
“One morning when I was serving Mass, in the fervor of my spirit I began to think of Father Bartholomew of Salutio and I started to ask our Lord as a favor from this servant of His,  that he would be pleased to give me some of the love He had given Bartholomew so that I could serve Him better… From the Sacred Host I suddenly  felt our Lord speak to me interiorly: ‘May your divine will be done!’                                                                                            … When a few days had gone by I began to reflect on what our Lord had said to me and what the trials might be that were to come upon me… One day my sister, Sister Mary Frances, wrote and told me that at Sezze a poor man had been murdered; the belief was that my brother and one of our cousins had done this. Though we suffered for a year and a half because of this… I pass it over, since I had something here in which to exercise charity toward others.”                    - ch. 65 of Autobiography