CASPAR DEL BUFALO

'Caspar del Bufalo' (1786-1836) (also known as 'Gaspare del Bufalo') was a Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the religious order Missionaries of the Precious Blood.

Contents

Life

Veneration

References

External links

Life

He was born in Rome, the son of a cook. He was ordained to the priesthood. He was banished with the other clergy who refused to take the oath of allegiance to Napoleon Bonaparte after the deportation of Pope Pius VIII. Upon his return to Italy, he engaged in work as a general missioner and founded, facing considerable difficulties, a society of priests to carry on his work, the Missionaries of the Precious Blood.
His missionary efforts were extremely dramatic. One contemporary, Vincent Strambi, described his preaching as being "like a spiritual earthquake".
He had recently given his last mission in Rome before dying in the cholera outbreak there in 1836.

Veneration

He was canonized a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in 1954. His feast day is January 2.

References

★ Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. ''The Penguin Dictionary of Saints''. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.

External links

★ San Gaspare Del Bufalo