Feast Day

January 22

The Church celebrates Vincent Pallotti on January 22.

Vincent Pallotti

Vincent Pallotti

April 21, 1795January 22, 1850

Vincent Pallotti resigned an assistant professorship at Sapienza University to serve Rome's poor and dying, then in 1835 founded the Union of the Catholic Apostolate — the first movement to enlist all the faithful, lay and clergy alike, in the Church's mission. He contracted fatal pleurisy while tending a sick man in the rain and died on January 22, 1850, aged fifty-four; his body, exhumed twice, was found incorrupt.