Detail Of A Statue Of Blessed Modestinus Date And Artist Unknown Located In Piedimonte Matese Italy Photographed On 27 January 2017 By Gianfranco Vitolo

Blessed Modestinus Of Jesus And Mary

Also known as: Dominic Mazzarella; Modestino of Jesus and Mary

Blessed

Post-Congregation

Feast Day

24-Jul

Born

5 September 1802 in Frattamaggiore, Diocese of Aversa, Naples, Italy as Dominic

Died

24 July 1854 in Naples, Italy of cholera; given a separate burial by his Alcantarine brothers; re-interred in the catacombs of the San Gaudioso in Naples; re-interred in the chapel in the church of Santa Maria della Sanità near the Saint Gaudioso catacombs in 1901; relics enshrined in the chapel of Our Lady of Good Counsel in the church of Santa Caterina d’Alessandria in Grumo Nevano, Italy on 18 October 2015

Beatified

29 January 1995 by Pope John Paul II at Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Italy; the beatification miracle involved the healing and protection of an infant girl who fell about 40 feet (12 meters) to pavement

Venerated

9 June 1983 by Pope John Paul II (decree of heroic virtues)

Biography

Blessed Modestinus of Jesus and Mary, also known as Dominic Mazzarella or Modestino of Jesus and Mary, was born on 5 September 1802 in Frattamaggiore, Diocese of Aversa, Naples, Italy. He was raised in a poor, working-class family, with his father involved in preparing hemp for rope making and his mother working as a weaver.

Cause for Canonization

Beatified

Beatified1995-01-29 by 29 January 1995 by Pope John Paul II at Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Italy; the beatification miracle involved the healing and protection of an infant girl who fell about 40 feet (12 meters) to pavement