VATICAN CITY (CNS) While their life journeys and the stages of their sainthood causes diverged, two men born in Italy are set to be canonized together Oct. 9: Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini and Blessed Artemide Zatti.
Blessed Scalabrini founded the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo, commonly known as the Scalabrinian Fathers, and the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles in the late 19th century to minister to countless Europeans who migrated to North and South America.
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Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini / Dicastery for the Causes of Saints via ACI PrensaRome Newsroom, Aug 27, 2022 / 08:34 am (CNA).A renowned Italian priest and bishop dedicated to evangelization and teaching the Catechism will be declared a saint of the Catholic Church on Oct. 9.At the consistory on Saturday, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, announced that the pope set Oct. 9 as the date for the canonization of Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini together with Blessed Artemide Zatti.Pope Francis previously approved the canonizations in a degree promulgated on May 21, 2022, with a dispensation from the requirement for a second miracle in the case of Scalabrini.A native of the Italian region of Lombardy, Scalabrini (1839-1905) was ordained a priest in 1863 and made bishop of Piacenza in 1876. As bishop, he founded the Missionaries of St. Charles Borromeo (also known as the Scalabrinians). He also created the "Saint Raphael As.