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Saints of the Month: February
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Saint Thomas Maria Fusco
The 24th of February is the feast day of Blessed Thomas Maria
Fusco (1 December 1831 – 24 February 1891).
He lived between 1831 and 1891 and was born in Italy, and was
the seventh child of a family of eight children. At an early age he
was left an orphan and was sent to be raised by his uncle, who
was also a priest. He himself became a priest when he was 24
years old and opened a school in his home. He became an
itinerant missionary in southern Italy. He opened another school
to train priests to become confessors after his travels. He founded
the Priestly Society of the Catholic Apostolate to support the
missions, gaining the papal approval to do so. He then started a
new religious order of sisters, the Daughters of Charity of the
Most Precious Blood which ministers orphan children. During this
time, he was also a parish priest, a confessor to cloistered nuns
and spiritual father to a lay group at the Shrine of the Lady of
Mount Carmel. At the age of 59, he died of liver disease.
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