Giovanni Battista Scalabrini
Organization founder
1839 – 1905
Who was Giovanni Battista Scalabrini?
Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini was ordained priest on 30 May 1863. He was made Bishop of Piacenza in Italy, on 28 November 1887 he founded the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles now known as the Scalabrinian Fathers and Brothers. Its initial mission is to "maintain Catholic faith and practice among Italian emigrants in the New World." Today, they and their sister organizations, the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo and Secular Institute of the Scalabrinian Missionary Women minister to migrants, seafarers, refugees and displaced persons.
Ordained to the priesthood Paolo Miraglia-Gulotti in 1879.
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