18 OCTOBER

 

 

FORTUNATO MARINI (novice)

 

BORN:

Costa Volpino, Bergamo. – 19.9.1837

DIED:

Verona (Stimate) – 18.10.1858

AGE: 21

  

He was in the Fr Mazza’s institute, from which he was dismissed because of health problems.  He was in love with religious life and asked to be received at Stimate. Fr Marani had him examined by four doctors and then he accepted him.  Before the end of the novitiate he found himself  dying.  He received the Viaticum and pronounced his religious vows. He died sighing for heaven.

 

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