Saint Benedetto Menni
Also known as
- Angelo Ercole Menni Figini
- Angelo Menni Figini
- Benedict Mennu
- Benito Menni
- Brother Benedetto
- Brother Benedict
Profile
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
- 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
- 11 May 1982 by Pope John Paul II (decree of heroic virtues)
MLA Citation
- “Saint Benedetto Menni“. CatholicSaints.Info. 9 April 2019. Web. 1 March 2021. <>