Felix of Cantalice was a 16th-century Italian Capuchin friar who served as a lay brother. Born into a poor farming family in Cantalice, he worked as a shepherd and laborer until his late twenties. After surviving a dangerous accident involving a plow, he joined the newly formed Capuchin order. He spent forty years in Rome acting as a quaestor, traveling the streets to collect alms for the sick and the impoverished.