Giuseppe Moscati

The Holy Giuseppe Moscati, Moscati Josef ( born July 25, 1880 in Benevento in Avellino, † April 12, 1927 in Naples) was an Italian physician, scientist and university professor. It was founded in 1975 by Pope Paul VI. blessed and canonized in 1987 by Pope John Paul II. His feast day is November 16.

Life

Giuseppe Moscati was born in 1880 as the son of a noble family. He was the seventh of nine children. Even as a boy he vowed eternal chastity. After graduating from the Vittorio Emanuele Institute he took in 1897 to study medicine at the University of Naples, which he finished in 1903 with a doctorate. His professional career began at Incurabili Hospital, 1908, he became an assistant at the Institute of Physiological Chemistry. In 1911 he was appointed as Assistant Professor of Physiological Chemistry. Later, he became director of the Institute of Pathological Anatomy. A reputation as a Professor of Physiological Chemistry he struck out in order to further committing to work at the hospital. In 1922, he was Associate Professor of General Medicine. After a short illness he died in 1927.

Work

From an early stage Giuseppe Moscati was distinguished by its humanitarian mission. At the outbreak of Vesuvius in 1906 was made by the interested parties immediate assistance, prompting, among other things, the evacuation of the hospital in Torre del Greco. Even with the cholera epidemic in Naples in 1911, he was day and night with the sick. During the First World War, he treated about 3,000 soldiers. He took care also about the mental health of soldiers and wrote, for example, diaries and poems for them.

Giuseppe Moscati was known to a certain degree to care for the poor and the dying. He often took no fee or only worked for a small remuneration and also gave considerable donations of medicines for needy patients. Although Moscati beat out a reputation as a professor to Naples, he worked always as a teacher; a field in which he had a particular talent for the unanimous testimony of his students.

The two of the Catholic Church ( required for beatification ) recognized miracles are healing a patient to Addison's disease and the cure of a patient cerebrospinal meningitis. As an approved miracle in the canonization applies the healing of patients with acute leukemia after Moscatis death; the mother of the patient was Moscati appeared in a dream and asked him then in prayers for help.

The importance Moscatis shows an excerpt from the the then Pope John Paul II speech to the Saints: " The man we will call as a saint of the Universal Church of today, appears to us as an actual realization of the ideal of the Christian laity. Joseph Moscati, chief physician, outstanding researcher, university teacher of human physiology and physical chemistry, experienced its wide range of tasks with diligence and seriousness that are necessary for the exercise of this difficult secular professions. From this point of Moscati be admired as a role model not only but especially by the medical personnel, even imitate. He is a role model even for the people who do not approve of his faith. "

Quotes

" The patients are figures of Jesus Christ; immortal, divine souls, one of the Protestant rule still should love yourself. " "You can not handle the pain as a spasm or muscle contraction, but as the cry of a soul, to which another brother with the fire of love, mercy, hurry. "