Tommaso Maria Fusco
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Pagani, Salerno, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Pagani, Salerno, Kingdom of Italy
Blessed Tommaso Maria Fusco | |
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 Tommaso Maria Fusco, was an Italian Roman Catholic priest | |
| Priest | |
| Born | 1 December 1831 Pagani, Salerno, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies |
| Died | 24 February 1891 (aged 59) Pagani, Salerno, Kingdom of Italy |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 7 October 2001, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
| Feast | 24 February |
| Attributes | |
| Patronage | Daughters of Charity of the Most Precious Blood |
Tommaso Maria Fusco (1 December 1831 – 24 February 1891) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest who established the Daughters of Charity of the Most Precious Blood.
Pope John Paul II beatified him in 2001 and his cause for sainthood still continues.[1]
Tommaso Maria Fusco was born on 1 December 1831 to Antonio Fusco and Stella Giordano as the seventh of eighth children. His mother died when he was six and his father when he was ten which led to his uncle Giuseppe adopting the children. In Nocera he commenced his studies for the priesthood in 1847 which also marked the death of his uncle. He was ordained to the priesthood on 22 December 1855.
Fusco served as a parish priest and opened a school in his own home. He became a member of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Nocera in 1857 and became a traveler in the south to preach. He also established the Priestly Society of the Catholic Apostolate as a means of supporting missions, and it was to receive the formal papal approval of Pope Pius IX in 1874. He then founded the Daughters of Charity of the Most Precious Blood on 6 January 1873 and served as a parish priest in Pagani from 1874 to 1887. He wrote a number of publications on a variety of different topics that included moral theology.
He died at the beginning of 1891.[2]
