Ulisse Amendolagine was born in Salerno (Italy) on 14 May 1893 to Leonardo, an official of the Ministry of the Interior, and Nunzia Minutillo. He was baptized exactly one month later with the names of Ulysses-Hector-Francis-Orestes.
The family of a state official, especially then, had no fixed abode, especially as an employee of the Public Security: so they moved from Salerno to Massa Carrara (1894), then to Catania and Barletta (1896), then to Alessandria (1899), Turin (1900), Naples (1901), Potenza (from 1903 until 1913), with a parenthesis of 9 months in Como (1906) and, finally, in Rome.
In Potenza, Ulysses received the sacrament of confirmation. In Rome he completed his studies with excellent success (all, like Lelia, in state schools), he decided to enroll in the Faculty of Law at the "Sapienza" University, graduating in 1917. Three years after graduation he began his service – also like his father at the Ministry of the Interior – in Massa Carrara. He moved permanently to Rome on October 20, 1922. He was to be a part of the Saint Teresa Parish of Discalced Carmelites for forty-five years.
On February 3, he joined the First Primary Congregation at the Church of St. Ignatius. A sign of solid spiritual maturity. A few months later, in the autumn, he became engaged to his wife, Lelia-Irma-Giulia-Maria Cossidente. The two were married in the church of Saint Teresa in Corso d'Italia on September 29, 1930: a ritual without pomp, but with the decorum that suited the social rank of the two young people.
Ulysses died on July 11, 1969, joining his bride, who had died in August 1951.
The Diocesan Inquiry into his «life, virtue and reputation for holiness" was opened on 18 June 2004 and closed on 24 May 2011 at the diocese of Rome.
