by Communication Cont | Sep 6, 2021 | Blessed Venerable and Servants of God, News
SALVATORE MICALIZZI, CM (1856-1937) Venerable Father Salvatore Micalizzi was born in Naples on 5 November 1856. Salvatore’s family was well-to-do, but the situation changed radically when, struck by the cholera that raged in Naples in 1865, his father died, leaving...
by Communication Cont | Sep 4, 2021 | Blessed Venerable and Servants of God, News
GIOVANNI BATTISTA MANZELLA, CM (1855-1937) He was born on 21 January 1855 in Soncino, a characteristic medieval town in the province of Cremona. After finishing his technical studies, he joined his father Carlo’s work as a mattress maker, first in the village and then...
by Communication Cont | Sep 2, 2021 | Blessed Venerable and Servants of God, News
JOSÉ MARÍA FERNÁNDEZ SÁNCHEZ AND 38 COMPANIONS This group of martyrs of the Vincentian Family consists of 33 members of the Congregation of the Mission, 17 of them priests and 16 coadjutor Brothers. To these 33 religious were added six laymen, Knights of the...
by Communications | Aug 21, 2021 | Blessed Venerable and Servants of God, News
On March 27, 1933, Father Giuseppe Alloatti CM, a missionary among Bulgarians of the Byzantine-Slavic rite in present-day Bulgaria and Macedonia, died in the House of Peace in Chieri, where he was receiving medical treatment. He was 76 years old. He died completely...
by Communication Cont | Jul 20, 2021 | Blessed Venerable and Servants of God, News
GIUSEPPE ALLOATTI (1857-1933) Giuseppe Alloatti was born on 20 July 1857 in Villastellone, the first of six children of Pietro Alloatti and Caterina Chicco. His family was rich in faith and included an uncle who was a priest and who, with his advice and goods,...
