Joseph Cafasso

Infobox Saint
name= St. Joseph Cafasso
birth_date=birth date|1811|1|15|mf=y
death_date=death date and age|1860|6|23|1811|1|15|mf=y
feast_day= june 22
venerated_in= Roman Catholic
birth_place= Castelnuovo, Piedmont, Italy
death_place=Turin, Italy
titles= Confessor
beatified_date= 1925
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canonized_date=1947
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attributes=Minister
patronage=prison chaplains, captives, imprisoned people and prisoners
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Giuseppe Cafasso (january 15, 1811 – June 23 1860) was a significant social reformer in early nineteenth-century Turin, born in Castelnuovo d'Asti, Piedmont, Italy.

He was one of the so-called ‘Social Saints’ of nineteenth-century Turin [The ‘Social Saints’ of Turin, at time of writing, are taken to be Giuseppe Benedict Cottolengo, John Bosco, Maria Domenica Mazzarello, and Leonardo Murialdo. If the movement for her beatification proves successful Giulia di Barolo, who focused particularly on women prisoners, may come to be added to their number. See, for instance, [http://www.comune.torino.it/infogio/guida/eng/mano/pag7.htm this page] from the official site of the Commune of Turin en icon] , who took it as their job to minister to the dispossessed, marginalised and often criminal elements of a city in the throes of industrialisation. He was the apostle of prisons and the comforter of those condemned to the death penalty, and was called the gallows priest for this.

Cafasso is the patron saint of prison chaplains, captives, imprisoned people, prisoners and prisons.

A monument has been erected to his memory in Turin at the road crossing of Corso Regina Margherita, Corso Principe Eugenio and Corso Valdocco (called the Rondò della Forca, or the Gallows Roundabout).

ee also

*Saint John Bosco

External links

* [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saintS/saintj64.htm Saints Index Page]
* [http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=696 Catholic Online]

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