Editing Pope Celestine V (section)

==Early life==
Pietro Angelerio was born to Angelo Angelerio and Maria Leone in the rural region of [[Molise]], in the [[Kingdom of Sicily]]. The exact village is believed to be [[Sant'Angelo Limosano]], now part of the [[province of Campobasso]] in [[Italy]]. His father died when Pietro was five or six, leaving him the second-youngest of seven sons to have survived infancy, of twelve total born to Maria.<ref name=Ferzoco>{{cite book | last=Ferzoco | first=George | editor-last=Head | editor-first=Thomas F. | title=Medieval Hagiography | publisher=Routledge | publication-place=New York | date=2001 | isbn=978-0-415-93753-5 | chapter=Peter of the Morrone (Pope Celestine V), Autobiography | pages=729–732}}</ref>

Maria was particularly fond of Pietro and encouraged his spiritual development, imagining a different future for her son than becoming just a farmer or shepherd as were the local occupations. She sold some family property to hire a tutor for him, which engendered resentment and hostility from his brothers. Despite this, Pietro took to education well and quickly learned to read the [[psalter]].<ref name=Sweeney>{{cite book | last=Sweeney | first=Jon M. | title=The Pope Who Quit | publisher=Image Books | publication-place=New York | year=2012 | isbn=978-0-385-53189-4 | oclc=713834638 }}</ref>

He became a [[Benedictine]] [[monk]] at the {{Interlanguage link|Abbey of Santa Maria di Faifoli|it|Abbazia di Santa Maria di Faifoli}} in the [[Diocese of Benevento]] when he was 17. He showed an extraordinary disposition toward [[asceticism]] and solitude, and in the early 1230s retired to a solitary cavern on the [[Montagne del Morrone]], hence his name (Peter of Morrone). He began attracting followers of his eremitic lifestyle, and gained a reputation as a miracle worker.<ref name=KeyFigures>{{cite encyclopedia | last=Ferzoco | first=George | title=Celestine V, Pope | encyclopedia=Key Figures in Medieval Europe: an encyclopedia | publisher=Routledge | location=New York | date=2006 | isbn=978-0-415-97385-4 | oclc=ocm63816510 }}</ref> In 1244, after a brief visit to [[Rome]] for his [[ordination]], he left this retreat, and went with two companions to a similar cave on the even more remote [[Maiella]] mountain in the [[Abruzzi]] region of central Italy, where he continued to live as a strict ascetic according to the example of [[John the Baptist]].<ref name=Loughlin1908>{{cite book|last=Loughlin|first=JF|title=The Catholic Encyclopedia|volume=3|chapter=Pope St. Celestine V|publisher=Robert Appleton Company|location=New York|year=1908|chapter-url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03479b.htm|title-link=s:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Volume 3}}</ref><ref name="Dictionary">{{cite book | last=Kelly | first=J. N. D. | last2=Walsh | first2=Michael J. | title=The Oxford Dictionary of Popes | publisher=Oxford University Press | publication-place=New York, NY | date=2010 | edition=2nd | url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780199295814.001.0001/acref-9780199295814 | isbn=978-0-19-929581-4 | oclc=557310520 | pages=206–208}}</ref>