June 9th

 

ANTONIO OSS BALS (priest)

 

Born:               Pergine (Trento)  27.7.1852

Entered:           Villazzano (Trento) 1867

Ordained:         1877

Died:                Trento 9.6.1891

Age:                 39

 

He entered at 15 years of age. He was elected rector of the Church of St Martin in Trento in 1880. He restored it, he refurbished it and provided sacred vestments.  He dedicated himself with zeal in aid of the sick during the small-pox epidemic of 1884.  He contracted pneumonia, and after asking for the last sacraments, he died receiving the reward of the good servants of the Lord.

 

Italian version