Saint of the Day 18/June
Saint of the Day (June 18) ✠ St. Gregorio Barbarigo ✠
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Saint of the Day 18/June
Saint of the Day (June 18) ✠ St. Gregorio Barbarigo ✠ Born: September 16, 1625, Venice, Italy Died: June 18, 1697, Padua, Italy Education: University of Padua Church: Roman Catholic Church Patronage: Diocese of Bergamo; Diocese of Padua Feast day: 17 June General Roman Calendar of 1960; 18 June General Roman Calendar Beatified: 6 July 1761; Saint Peter's Basilica, Papal States; by Pope Clement XIII He was born in 1625 of an ancient and noble Venetian family. From his tender years he cultivated his mind with polite and solid studies, and with much greater ardour adorned his soul with a perfect spirit of all Christian virtues, in which he made every day greater progress. He was sent by the republic of Venice with its ambassador Aloysius Contarini, one of the mediators at the famous congress of Munster, where the celebrated treaty, commonly of Westphalia, Osnaburg, or Munster, was ...