✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: February 27

St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

Religious · 1838–1862

Patron of Students, young people

A fun-loving Italian youth fond of dancing and the theater who, after a brush with death, became a Passionist and died of tuberculosis at twenty-four in radiant holiness.

He was a stylish, theater-loving young man — and became a saint not by great deeds but by doing ordinary things with extraordinary love, dying at twenty-four.

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