Nazju Falzon

Ignatius ( Nazju ) Falzon ( born July 1, 1813 in Valletta, Malta; † July 1, 1865 ) was a Maltese lay pastor and catechist, who became the first Maltese in the canon of the blessed.

Life

Ignatius Falzon was born in 1813 as son of Francis Joseph Falzon and Mary Teresa Falzon. Even as a child, he distinguished himself by living witnesses of exceptional piety: he prayed the rosary every day and was a great admirer of the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph. After attending high school, he became a lawyer ( 1833), but had the age of 15 received the minor orders. However, an ordained a Catholic priest, he refused because he felt it to be not worthy.

Falzon taught children and young people in Christianity and converted about 600 British soldiers and six Jews to the Catholic faith. For his Katechistentätigkeit he renounced a " secular career." He taught at the Institute of the Good Shepherd (Institute of the Good Shepherd ), the teachings of the Catechism. Given the high numbers of proselytizing, he created a congregation that should take care of the converts and those supervised sustainable. There, every day of the Catechism of endurance was taught by preaching and introduction to the sacraments.

After a full life, but still relatively young, Ignatius Falzon died on his birthday on 1 July 1865 in Valletta. He is buried in a family grave in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception ( Immaculate ) in the Church of Mary of Jesus the Minor Franciscans, right in the capital of Malta, Valletta.

Ecclesiastical recognition

Already on 22 November 1905 by Pope Pius X the heroic virtues, the precursor for the beatification, found. The beatification took place on 9 May 2001 by Pope John Paul II during the Jubilee Pilgrimage to Greece, Syria and Malta in 2001, together with the priest George Preca and the nun Maria Adeodata Pisani.

His feast day in the liturgy is the 1st of July.

Swell

  • Short biography in the calendar of saints on the kirchensite.de the diocese of Münster
  • Schauber / Schindler: saints and patron saints during the year, Pattloch Verlag, 1998.
  • Glossary of names and saints, Nikol Verlag, 2002.
  • Ekkart Sauser: Falzon, Ignatius. In: Biographic- bibliographic church encyclopedia ( BBKL ). Volume 18, Bautz, Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7, Sp 403 (Articles / Articles beginning possibly in the Internet Archive )
  • Short biography and decree of beatification in Latin
  • Short biography in the Vatican declared Blessed and Saints in Italian
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