✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: June 4

St. Francis Caracciolo

Priest, Founder · 1563–1608

Patron of Naples

An Italian nobleman, cured of a disfiguring illness, who founded an order combining active ministry with perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

His order kept the Eucharist watched in unbroken adoration, the brothers taking turns day and night — a practice he carried to his own death.

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