Joseph Cafasso

Joseph Cafasso ( born January 15, 1811 in Castelnuovo d' Asti, † June 23, 1860 in Turin) was a Roman Catholic clergyman and social reformer. He was canonized in 1947.

Life

The son of a wealthy farmer went to the seminary in Chieri and received priestly ordination in 1833. He entered the ecclesiastical seminary Institute of St.. Francis, in order to deepen his knowledge of the theologian Luigi Guala. In 1836 he was a teacher himself for moral theology, and later Spiritual and 1846-1860 Rector in this seminary. His students included John Bosco, it - like many other Turin Salesian and diocesan priests - also chose the confessor. In 1848 he was also pastor of the parish connected with the seminary Saint François. He is considered a great admirer and imitator of Saint. Francis de Sales. He also very active in the pastoral care of prisoners in five prisons in Turin, where appropriate - is at 68 prisoners - right up to his execution, which earned him the nickname Boom priest.

He is therefore - in addition to Don Bosco, Joseph Benedict Cottolengo, John Bosco, Sister Maria Domenica Mazzarello and Leonhard Murialdo and others - the so-called Turin Social saints of the 19th century. On 3 May 1925, he was. Among great support from his nephew to Blessed Joseph Allamano, by Pope Pius XI beatified, on June 22, 1947, Pope Pius XII. canonized. His feast day is June 23. He is regarded as the patron of chaplains, the prisoners and the prison chaplain.

A monument was erected to his memory in Turin at the intersection of the roads Regina Margherita, Principe Eugenio and Valdocco called Rondo della Forca. He is patron of the church of San Giorgio in Kemonia in Palermo.

Works

• Complete Works, Torino, Istituto Collegio della Consolata internazionale per le Missoni estere, 1 Sacre Missoni al popolo, Turin 1923;
• 2 Sacre Missoni al popolo, Turin 1925;
• 3 Meditazioni by esercizi spirituali al clero, Turin 1925;
• 4 Istruzioni by esercizi spirituali al clero, Turin 1925;