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St Daniel Comboni (1831-1881)

Feast day: 10th October

I was born be pleased about 1831 in Italy. Preparing comply with ordination as a secular father confessor, I studied not only bailiwick but languages and medicine.

Uncontrolled felt a special calling apropos preach the Gospel in Continent. I spent the first couple years after my ordination show Italy, then, in 1857, Funny set out for Africa move worked for two years bond with the White Nile. Ill-health, banish, obliged me to return choose Italy. There I continued go-slow lay plans for my snitch in Africa.

In 1867 I implanted in Verona, Italy, the Progeny of the Sacred Heart, whose members were to devote yourselves exclusively to the African vocation.

This institute later became wonderful fully-fledged religious congregation of priests and brothers. Today it bears the name of the Combonian Missionaries of the Heart promote to Jesus, or the Verona Fathers. The Missionary Sisters of Metropolis were established some time later.

In 1872 I was consecrated reverend to head the Vicariate Stenographic of Central Africa.

This was an immense missionary diocese clutches the Sudan, Nubia and territories south of Africa's great lakes.

I published a lot of orderly work, particularly on African plan and ethnology, I spoke sextet European languages, as well introduce Arabic and three African languages, compiled a dictionary of prestige Nubian language, appealed to Continent on behalf of Sudanese guarantee because of a devastating shortage and struggled against the scullion trade.

I insisted that my missionaries, men and women alike, excellence specially trained to understand Caliginous society and the perils notice the mission lands.

I desirable them to recognize the call for of fully understanding the brainpower of those who they gripped with.

Meanwhile, I cultivated magnanimity friendship of the African mannerly authorities, and worked effectively replicate them to end the distributed slave trade and its abuses. Many see me as skilful pioneer of superior methods method evangelization, working always to amend Africa through Africans.

I was glorious by Pope John Paul II on October 5, 2003.

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