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Friday, Oct. 26, 29th Week in Ordinary Time
BLESSED CONTARDO FERRINI (Italy, 1859-1902), Professor and Jurist, Secular Franciscan
Born in Milan and home-schooled by his professor father, he went on to become a most learned man himself who knew a dozen languages and was recognized as an expert in both civil and canon law. A child prodigy, he earned his doctorate in jurisprudence at age 21, then won a scholarship to Berlin where he pursued further studies. He returned to Italy where he taught at several top universities, including a stint at the University of Paris, before ending up in the famous University of Pavia. As a scholar he left more than 200 books, articles and speeches on law, as well as the relationship between science and faith. Always a devout Catholic, he read the Scriptures in the original languages, and was a member of the secular Franciscan order and the charitable Society of St. Vincent de Paul. In an era marked by the dominance of Freemasonry, anti-clericalism and the general breakdown of traditional values, he was remarkably untouched by secularism, managing to live a silent apostolate of work, prayer, charity and friendship with God. Even his atheist friends said that his llfestyle 'allowed a glimpse of God', and a friend who would become Pius XI said it was almost a miracle that Ferrini could live as he did. He died at the age of 42 after contracting typhus from infected water. Immediately, his townspeople and his fellow professors declared him a 'saint'. Pius X began the cause for his canonization in 1909, and was proclaimed Venerable by his friend Pius XI. He was beatified by Pius XII in 1947. Having advocated a Catholic university for Italy in his lifetime, eh is considered a patron of universities, and the Catholic University of Milan, founded after his death, now has his remains entombed in its chapel.
Readings for today's Mass:
www.usccb.org/bible/readings/102612.cfm
No bulletins so far from the Vatican.
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