Giovanni Battista Scalabrini

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name= Giovanni Battista Scalabrini
birth_date= 8 July 1839
death_date= 1 June 1901
feast_day=June 1
venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church


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birth_place=Fino Mornasco, Italy
death_place=Piacenza, Italy
titles= Bishop
beatified_date= 9 November 1997
beatified_place= Rome
beatified_by= Pope John Paul II
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patronage= Catholic Action
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Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini (John Baptist Scalabrini) was ordained priest in May 30 1863. [http://saints.sqpn.com/saintj58.htm] He was made Bishop of Piacenza in Italy, in 1887 and founded Catholic Action. Its mission is to "maintain Catholic faith and practice among Italian emigrants in the New World." Today, they and their sister organizations, the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo (founded by Scalabrini on 25 October 1895) and Secular Institute of the Scalabrinian Missionary Women (founded 25 July 1961) minister to migrants, refugees and displaced persons.