perhaps, lay the key to his levitations. After sampling his own loaves he evidently believed he was taking off." See also List of Catholic saints Saints and levitation Padre Pio – another saint with similar disruptive visions Religious ecstasy The Reluctant Saint – a 1962 movie, based on the story of Joseph of Cupertino, directed by Edward Dmytryk San Giuseppe da Copertino, church in Rome References Further reading Angelo Pastrovicchi. (1918). St. Joseph of Copertino. B. Herder Book Company. Gordon Stein. (1993). Encyclopedia of Hoaxes. Gale Group. Michael Grosso. (2015). Evidence for St. Joseph of Copertino’s Levitations. Supplemental web material for “Empirical Challenges to Theory Construction,” Edward F. Kelly, Chapter 1, Beyond Physicalism, Edward F. Kelly, Adam Crabtree, and Paul Marshall (Eds.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Butler's Lives of the Saints (Vol. III) Butler, Alban (Edited by Herbert Thurston, S.J. and Donald Attwater) (Christian Classics, Inc. – Westminster, Maryland - ©1756-9, 1926–38, 1956 and 1981) Dictionary of Saints – Delaney, John J. (Image Books – Doubleday – New York, New York ©1980 and 1983 Proper Offices of Franciscan Saints and Blesseds in the Liturgy of the Hours – Cassese, OFM, Father John – Marie (Catholic Book Publishing Co., New York, New York ©1977) Hervé Roullet (2020). St. Joseph of Copertino (in French). AVM Diffusion, 71601, Paray-le-Monial, France. External links Essay from "Saints for Sinners" Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Joseph of Cupertino St Joseph of Cupertino St Joseph of Cupertino Parish, Cupertino, California St Joseph of Cupertino, Copertino, Italy St. Joseph of Cupertino 1603 births 1663 deaths People from the Province of Lecce Italian Roman Catholic saints Franciscan saints Franciscan mystics Conventual Friars Minor Burials in le Marche Miracle workers 17th-century Christian saints 17th-century Christian mystics 17th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests Venerated Catholics Canonizations by Pope Clement XIII Beatifications by Pope Benedict XIV