Founder of the Pious Society of Missions (Pallottines; born Rome, Italy, 1798; died there, 1850. He devoted his life especially to the poor and penitents, and started the special observance at Rome of the Octave of the Epiphany. Canonized in 1963.
Founder of the Pious Society of Missions (Pallottines; born Rome, Italy, 1798; died there, 1850. He devoted his life especially to the poor and penitents, and started the special observance at Rome of the Octave of the Epiphany. Canonized in 1963.
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