Saint Alberic Crescitelli

Also known as

• Alberico

Memorial

• 22 July
• 28 September as one of the Martyrs of China

Profile

Seminarian at age twelve. Studied at the Pontifical Seminary for Foreign Missions in Rome. Ordained in 1887. Joined the Milan Foreign Missionary Society, the predecessor of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), in 1888. Missionary in the Shensi Province in China near the Han River in 1888. Transferred to Ningkiang in 1900. Arrested on 20 July 1900 during the anti-Western Boxer Rebellion, he was tortured and murdered. One of the Martyrs of China.

Born

• 30 June 1863 at Altavilla, Benevento, Italy

Died

• beheaded on 21 July 1900 in Ningkiang, China
• body hacked to pieces

Venerated

• 5 March 1950 by Pope Pius XII (decree of martyrdom)

Beatified

• 18 February 1951 by Pope Pius XII

Canonized

• 1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Hagiography Circle
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• The Vatican: Martyrs in China

MLA Citation

• “Saint Alberic Crescitelli”. Saints.SQPN.com. 25 July 2012. Web. 19 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-alberic-crescitelli/>