When we met Capuchin friar Silvestro da Gubbio, he was propped up, wearing a name tag, the brown robe and rope belt of the Capuchin order, and a shocked expression — looking every bit his 400 years. We met him in the flesh — or what remained of the flesh — in Palermo, in Sicily, where he died in 1599, when Queen Elizabeth I still had four more years to live.