Giacomo Gaglione

Giacomo Gaglione, TOSF (July 20, 1896May 28, 1962) was an Italian member of the Third Order of St. Francis, who became the founder of the Apostolate of Suffering. On 3 April 2009, he was declared venerable by Pope Benedict XVIVenerable Giacomo Gaglione Saints.SQPN.comVatican decrees move 11 candidates closer to beatification catholicculture.org and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints has opened his process of beatification.2 Laypeople Approach Canonization Zenit.org Decree on the virtues of Giacomo Gaglione issued by Msgr Angelo Amato

Biography Gaglione was born in Marcianise, in the Province of Caserta from a wealthy family. Antonio Di Nardo, Giacomo Gaglione. La pienezza della gioia nella riscoperta del senso del dolore, p.6 At the age of sixteen, in June 1912, just as he was about to graduate from high school, he felt the first symptoms of the disease that immobilize him in bed with paralyzed legs: ankylosing spondylitis.Joan Carroll Cruz, Saintly Men of Modern Times p. 142 Treatment with boiling mud, surgery, orthopedic traction, electrotherapy were all useless. Antonio Di Nardo, Giacomo Gaglione. La pienezza della gioia nella riscoperta del senso del dolore, p.17

In 1919 Gaglione went to the noted Capuchin mystic, Pio of Pietrelcina The spiritual sons of Padre Pio with the hope of obtaining a cure, but on the contrary this meeting led him to accept his illness as Christian mission. He became spiritual son of the friar, who continued to guide and assist him with the gift of bilocation. The masterpiece of Padre Pio In January 1921, he was examined by a doctor, later to become saint, Giuseppe Moscati Giacomo Gaglione: The story and in August of the same year he enrolled in the Third Order of St. Francis, professing the following year, taking the name of Francis, in veneration of Francis of Assisi. Antonio Di Nardo, Giacomo Gaglione. La pienezza della gioia nella riscoperta del senso del dolore, p.26

In August 1929, after 17 years of immobility, Gaglione made the first of his nine pilgrimages to Lourdes, an experience that later became his first book: The Pilgrimage of a Soul. There, he founded the Apostolate of Suffering, a spiritual brotherhood designed to convince the sick "that are the beloved of the Lord". The institution found the support of the Bishop of Caserta, Gabriele Moriondo. The founder was received by Pope Pius XI, who bestowed on him the award of Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, while in November 1944, Pope Pius XII appointed him a Commander to Order of St. Sylvester. Antonio Di Nardo, Giacomo Gaglione. La pienezza della gioia nella riscoperta del senso del dolore, p.43 Since 1952 the Apostolate had its periodical: Hosts upon the world.Joan Carroll Cruz, Saintly Men of Modern Times p. 143 At that time he released his second book, In the Mirror of my Soul.

On 20 October 1961 Gaglione published his last book: 50 years of the Cross to be able to smile

Gaglione died May 28, 1962, in Capodrise. At his funeral celebrated the next day were many people from all over Italy. In 1965 by the will of the ecclesiastical authorities,Beatificationis et Canonizationis Servi Dei Pii a Pietrelcina, Positio super virtutibus, Vol. II, p. 370 the corpse was transferred to the local parish church of St. Andrew.

Giacomo Gaglione

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