Blessed Giacomo Alberione
Also known as: Santiago Alberione
Feast Day
26-Nov
Born
4 April 1884 in San Lorenzo di Fossano, Cuneo, Italy
Died
6:26pm on 26 November 1971 in the Generalate House, Rome, Italy of natural causes
Beatified
27 April 2003 by Pope John Paul II
Venerated
25 June 1996 by Pope John Paul II (decree of heroic virtues)
Biography
Blessed Giacomo Alberione, also known as Santiago Alberione, was born on 4 April 1884 in San Lorenzo di Fossano, Cuneo, Italy. He began his journey towards the priesthood as a seminarian in the cities of Bra and Alba in Italy. It was during the night of 31 December 1900 to 1 January 1901, while engaged in nightly Eucharistic adoration in Alba, that he experienced a profound calling to do something significant for the people of the new 20th century.
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