Patronage

Patron Saint of Catholic Apostolate

Vincent Pallotti is venerated as the patron saint of Catholic Apostolate — feast day January 22.

Vincent Pallotti

Vincent Pallotti

April 21, 1795January 22, 1850 · Feast day: January 22

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.

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