Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
Also known as: Alfredo Ludovico Luigi Schuster
Feast Day
30-Aug
Born
18 January 1880 at Rome, Italy as Alfredo Ludovico Luigi Schuster
Died
30 August 1954 at Venegono, Italy of natural causes; buried in Metropolitan Cathedral, Milan, Italy
Beatified
12 May 1996 by Pope John Paul II
Venerated
26 March 1994 by Pope John Paul II (decree of heroic virtues)
Biography
Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, also known as Alfredo Ludovico Luigi Schuster, was born on 18 January 1880 in Rome, Italy. At the age of 11, he began his education at Saint-Paul-Outside-the-Walls abbey in Rome. His deep commitment to the faith led him to enter the Cassinese Benedictine monastic novitiate in 1896, where he took the name Ildefonso. On 13 November 1900, he made his formal monastic confession and was ordained as a priest on 19 March 1904 in Rome.
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