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The Apostolic Movement of Schoenstatt is a Roman Catholic Marian movement founded in Germany in 1914 by Father Joseph Kentenich, who saw the movement as a means of spiritual renewal for the Catholic Church. The movement is named Schoenstatt after a small village close to the town of Vallendar near Koblenz, in Germany.
Camillo Ruini is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was made a cardinal in 1991. He served as president of the Italian Episcopal Conference from 1991 to 2007 and as Vicar General of the Diocese of Rome from 1991 to 2008.
Salvatore De Giorgi is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Palermo from 1996 until his retirement in 2006. He was made a cardinal in 1998. He was first made a bishop in 1973 and led other dioceses in his native Apulia from 1978 to 1990.
The Congregation of Clerics Regular, commonly called the Theatines, is an order of clerics regular of Pontifical Right for Men of the Catholic Church. It was founded by Archbishop Gian Pietro Carafa in Sept. 14, 1524. Its members add the nominal letters C.R. after their names to indicate their membership in the Congregation.
Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, C.I.I.C., was an immigrant from Austria-Hungary to Brazil, who became the foundress of the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, religious sisters who serve the poor. She became the first female Brazilian to be proclaimed a saint by the Catholic Church, when she was canonized on 19 May 2002 by Pope John Paul II. Pauline suffered from diabetes for much of her life and is considered an "unofficial" patron saint of diabetics.
Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa - born as Paola Francesca Di Rosa - was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Ancelle della carità (1839). Di Rosa worked first at her father's spinning mill where she - with his encouragement - tended to the spiritual and material needs of the female workers while gathering several women to dedicate their collective efforts to caring for the poor; this formed the basis for the establishment of her religious congregation. Her apostolate prioritized tending to the ill in hospitals and to soldiers going to the front.
Angelo Amato, S.D.B. is an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints between 2008 and 2018. He served as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2002 to 2008 and became a cardinal in 2010.
Pio Bruno Pancrazio Lanteri, or simply Bruno Lanteri, was a Catholic priest and founder of the religious congregation of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia in northwestern Italy in the early 19th century. His spiritual life and work centered on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. He was also renowned for challenging Jansenism by distributing books and other publications that promoted the moral theology of St. Alphonsus Liguori, as well as establishing societies to continue this work.
Association of Salesian Cooperators (ASC) is the movement of laity of the Salesian Family of Don Bosco and is the third order of the Salesian Order. It is also one of the three main branches of the Salesian Family founded directly by Don Bosco in 1876. The movement was created with the purpose to share the ideals of the Salesian Preventive System in the education of young people, especially those who are poorest, without the need to be a priest or a lay religious. According to a 2005's census, there are 26,703 persons affiliated to this movement around the world.
The Congregation of the Sons of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph is a Latin Institute of Consecrated Life for priests in the Catholic Church. The congregation is dedicated to educating the young and strengthening Catholic family life.
John Baptiste Berthier was a Catholic missionary and educator. Berthier was born February 24, 1840 in Chatonnay in southern France. He founded a Catholic religious institute, the Institute for Late Vocations in Grave, the Netherlands in 1895 - organized to meet the needs of men who desired to become priests later in their life. The organization received episcopal approval in 1904, and took the name Missionaries of the Holy Family. Berthier died Oct. 16, 1908. Berthier was the author of 36 ascetical and theological works, largely relating to the diversity of ways to holiness through imitating the holy family.
Carlo Gnocchi was an Italian priest, educator and writer. He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.
Pierina Gilli, was a Roman Catholic Italian who claimed to receive messages from the Virgin Mary in 1947 and 1966. The apparitions were determined by the local ordinary, after consultation with the CDF, to be lacking in sufficient evidence of credibility.
Giovanni Battista Piamarta was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and educator. Piamarta was also the founder of the Congregation of the Holy Family of Nazareth. Piamarta established his congregation in 1900 in order to promote Christian education across the Italian peninsula. Piamarta also founded the Humble Servants of the Lord.
Salvatore Martinez is an Italian scholar, the first layperson president of the Rinnovamento nello Spirito Santo in Italy. President of the Vatican Foundation "International Center Family of Nazareth" and personal representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office 2018 on Combating Racism, Xenophobia and Discrimination, also focusing on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians and Members of other Religions".
Sacra Famiglia is a religious building in Alcamo, Sicily, southern Italy; it is located on the ground floor of the Ex Jesuits' College.
The Sisters of the Holy Family of Villefranche, also called the Sisters of Villefranche, is a religious institute of pontifical right whose members profess public vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and follow the evangelical way of life in common. The congregation was founded in 1815 by Émilie de Rodat in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, in southern France. Rodat established several schools and provided free education for girls, eventually expanding to other types of ministries, including visiting prisoners, caring for the ill and establishing hospitals, founding rescue homes for prostitutes, and establishing cloistered communities. By the time Rodat died in 1852, there were 38 houses, 25 cloistered communities, and 32 schools with over 5,000 students sponsored by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Villefranche in several countries. As of 1999, there were 520 Sisters of the Holy Family of Villefranche worldwide. In 2016, the congregation celebrated the bicentennial anniversary of its founding.
Pietro Casani was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Piarists. He became an assistant and a close personal friend of Giuseppe Calasanz. Casani had assumed the religious name of "Pietro della Natività di Maria" upon his solemn profession and had once been part of the Congregazione della Beata Vergine Maria that Giovanni Leonardi founded.
Antonio Banchieri was an Italian cardinal.
Natalina was born in Cuneo, Italy on December 4, 1864, to Giuseppe and Margherita Dogliani. The couple was wealthy and had many children. Born a Roman Catholic, Natalina was baptized in Sant'Ambrogio Church in Cuneo on December 7, 1864 and originally was given the name Maria. In 1871 in the same church, she received her first communion and was later confirmed. Later that year, the family fell into financial ruin after her father was scammed of his fortune.