Francesco Fasola
Italian Catholic Archbishop (1898-1988)
Who they were
Francesco Fasola (23 February 1898 – 1 July 1988) was an Italian member of the Congregatio Oblatorum Sanctorum Gaudentii et Caroli Novariae who served as the Archbishop of Messina from 1963 until his retirement in 1977. He served as a rector and parish priest after his ordination in Galliante before he was made a bishop in 1954 for the Agrigento diocese where he served as the coadjutor; he later was moved south to Caltagirone and then was made an archbishop. Fasola placed a particular emphasis during his episcopate on the renovation of ecclesial buildings and the ordination of new priests which was a sacrament he liked to bestow upon seminarians.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Santi e Beati — Servo di Dio Francesco Fasola — santiebeati.it: 'Servo di Dio Francesco Fasola, Arcivescovo di Messina, Maggiora, Novara, 23 febbraio 1898 - Novara, 1 luglio 1988'. Cause opened; Servant of God.
- Wikidata Q3749958 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Francesco Fasola (CC BY-SA)
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