Joseph Cafasso

Joseph Cafasso - (1811 - 1860) - Italian Priest, theologist, chaplain of condemned to death, he was the professor of Don Bosco.

Life and work

Joseph Cafasso was born in 1811 in Castelnuovo d' Asti, which now is called Castelnuovo Don Bosco, in the province from Silk, in Piedmont. Suffering from a malformation of the spinal column, there was of small size, and remained estropié all its life.

Feeling very good hour the call to the religious life, it was ordered priest in 1833. In parallel, he exerted the functions of professor of moral theology to Turin as of 1836. He had as raises the young person Don Bosco whom he knew whereas this last was only 12 years old.

Named cleaned parish of François Saint in 1848 he was a famous confessor, very attached to the veneration of the Blessed Sacrament. Disciple of Holy François Dirty, it encouraged his flocks highly, and helped also the priests in their ministry. He was liked and appreciated of all the population. The Pope Pie XII said at the time of his canonization that the mission with which had charged it Providence, was to inform the clergy, to confirm it in the integrity of the evangelic doctrines, and to incite it to specific perfection to his state .

He exerted also many ministries, particularly near the prisoners whom he visited and of condemned that he assisted until their last hour. He was called the chaplain of the gibets and is currently the protective saint of the chaplains of prison. He gave the discharge to condemned to death, and as those were carried out immediately afterwards, Joseph spoke about them like hung holy . He worked all his life with the improvement of the penitentiary condition.

June 23rd 1860, it would die of a pneumonia in Turin. It is Don Bosco which pronounced the homélie for the Mass of funeral.

Quotation

We were born to like, we live to like, and we will die to like still more .

Source

Osservatore Romano

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