Filarete of Calabria was an 11th-century saint born in Palermo around 1020. Coming from a family of Calabrian descent that had been relocated to Sicily, he eventually returned to his ancestral region. He spent much of his life working as a gardener, residing in various locations such as Reggio Calabria and Sinopoli. He eventually settled at the monastery of St. Elias on Mount Aulinas, where he lived for his final twenty-five years before passing away in Palmi in 1070.