Saint Agostino Roscelli
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- Also known as
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Augustine Roscelli
Augustin Roscelli
- Memorial
- 7 May
- Profile
- Born to a poor farming family, he spent his youth as a mountain shepherd, using his solitary time for prayer.
During a parish mission in May 1835, he realized a call to the priesthood, a calling he attacked with prayer which led to financial aid that allowed him to study at Genoa, Italy.
Ordained on 19 September 1846.
Priest at Saint Martin d'Albaro in 1846, then the Church of Consolation in Genoa in 1854.
Chaplain of the provincial orphanage in 1874, a post he held for 22 years.
Prison chaplain, working especially with those condemned to death.
He established a residential school to train young women who were in danger of starvation or falling into prostitution because they had no support.
On 15 October 1876, he founded the Institute of Sisters of the Immaculata to run this and other residential centers he established.
- Born
- 27 July 1818 at Bargone di Casarza Ligure, Italy
- Died
- 7 May 1902 at Genoa, Italy of natural causes
- Venerated
- 21 December 1989 by Pope John Paul II
- Beatified
- 7 May 1995 by Pope John Paul II
- Canonized
- 10 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II
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- Readings
- A spiritual feature characteristic of Blessed Agostino Roscelli...was to work at the service of his brothers and sisters without ever neglecting his interior union with the Lord.
The true contemplative is the one who is able to work with greater force and incisiveness for the salvation of souls and the good of the Church.
The new blessed's apostolic activity was truly fruitful because it flowed from a genuine mystical and contemplative life.
His ardent love for God, enriched by the gift of wisdom, enagled him to give himself as far as possible to serving his neighbor without ever being separated from the Lord.
-Pope John Paul II at the beatification ceremony of Agostino Roscelli