A saint of everyday life, of the encounter with people and above all with the sick. A saint who has lived through some situations that make him contemporary to the sufferings of today: emigrant, from Italy to Argentina, engaged in the world of health, as a nurse and as the soul of the first hospital … Read more
The founder of the Scalabrinians, Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, bishop of Piacenza, founder of the Congregation of the Missionaries of San Carlo and of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of San Carlo Borromeo, will be canonized on Sunday 9 October, together with Artemide Zatti, a professed layman of the Salesian Society of S Giovanni Bosco … Read more
Scalabrini, the bishop on the side of migrants He has never tired of going out to meet people, reaching them in the most distant places of his vast diocese on the back of a mule or taking long journeys on steamers to get close to his compatriots who have emigrated from the other side of … Read more