Venerable

Venerable

The Venerable is used as a style or epithet in several Christian churches. It is also the common English-language translation of a number of Buddhist titles.-Roman Catholic:...

 Ludovico Sabbatini (30 August 1650 – 11 June 1724) was an Italian priest

Priest

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 and religious

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 educator, who was beatified

Beatification

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 by the Catholic Church in 1765. He is venerated on 11 June, the day of his death.

Born in Naples

Naples

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, Italy, to a deeply religious family (one of his sisters was a nun, and three other brothers were priests), at a very young age Sabbatini dedicated himself to a religious life. He involved himself with the Congregazione dei Pii Operai (Congregation of Pious Workers), teaching religion to the children of the poor and manual laborers of Naples and helping perform mass

Mass

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 at the Chiesa de San Nicola alla Caritá. In this church he was in charge of the so-called Congregazione dei Figlioli (Congregation of Sons).

He was ordained a priest at age 24 and soon began to teach at the religious academies of San Giorgio Maggiore and Santa Maria ai Monte. In 1684 he founded a monastery

Monastery

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 near the Santissima Annunziata

Santissima Annunziata

The Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata Maggiore is a church in Naples in southern Italy.The Annunziatas origins goes back to 1320 and has always been, in one form or another, an orphanage. Remade a first time in the early 16th century, by the mid 17th century, it was a full-fledged home, church,...

 hospital, for wayward young women who wished to take religious order

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In 1687, Father Sabbatini moved to Rome

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 in order to promote the Congregation of Pious Workers in the Papal States

Papal States

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. From that point, Sabbatini involved himself in many benevolent activities with the poor and ill in hospital

Hospital

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s and prison

Prison

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s, as well as aiding Jews. Some miraculous cures where attributed to him. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2279/is_n148/ai_17474753/pg_6. He was widely admired for his goodness. Nevertheless, he continued working as a teacher, at the Collegio dei Catecumini, where he founded an academy of dogma

Dogma

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 and exegesis

Exegesis

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.

Returning to Naples in 1699, he was elected general provost

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 (Preposito Generale) of the Congregazione. For 25 years, he also directed the Congregazione dei Dottori e Cavalieri at San Giorgio Maggiore. He died in Naples.

External links

• Venerabile Ludovico Sabbatini. Santi e Beati (In Italian)