✦ Remembering Saints

Feast day: May 23

St. John Baptist de Rossi

Priest · 1698–1764

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A Roman priest who, despite his own fragile health, gave himself to the most neglected of the city — herdsmen, prisoners, the homeless, and the dying poor.

He turned a hostel for the homeless into a center of mercy and spent his nights in the confessional for cab drivers, laborers, and outcasts.

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