Saint Benedetto Menni

Saint Benedetto Menni Also known as

Angelo Ercole Menni Figini
Angelo Menni Figini
Benedict Mennu
Benito Menni
Brother Benedetto
Brother Benedict

24 April

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Son of Luigi Menni and Luisa Figini, the fifth of fifteen children in the family. Brother in the Order of Saint John of God Hospitaler. Studied philosophy and theology at the Seminary of Lodi, Italy and then in the Gregorian Pontifical University of Rome, Italy. Ordained in 1866. By order of Pope Pius IX, in 1867 he began the restoration of the Saint John of God Order in Spain and Portugal. Founder of the Congregation of Hospitaller Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on 31 May 1881. A real Samaritan, he made the care of the elderly, abandoned children, polio victims and the mentally ill the guide of his life.

Born

11 March 1841 at Milan, Italy as Angelo Ercole Menni Figini

Died

24 April 1914 at Dinan, France of natural causes
relics at the Mother House of the Congregation of Hospitaller Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Ciempozuelos, Spain

Venerated