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Oct 09

Saint John Leonardi

October 9th XVII century

Name
Juan (Masculino)
Celebrate
People named Juan use to celebrate 24-Jun:
Saint John the Baptist, nativity
Other saints
Other saints named Juan
Born
en Diécimo, in current Italy
Dead
October 9th 1609 in Roma, in current Italy
Process
Celebration
October 9th
Religious
de la Orden Católica Romana de Canónigos Regulares de Premontre
Saint John Leonardi, priest, who left the city of Luca, in Tuscany, where worked as pharmacist, to get to be a priest, and in order to teach children Christian doctrine, restore the apostolic life of the clergy, and spread the Christian faith, instituted the order of Clerics Regular, later called the Mother of God, and had to suffer so many contradictions. He also initiated the School of Propaganda Fide, where he, exhausted by work, rested piously. Roman martyrology