Feast day: June 23
St. Joseph Cafasso
A small, hunchbacked Italian priest and brilliant moral theologian who trained generations of priests — among them St. John Bosco — and ministered tenderly to condemned prisoners.
He accompanied dozens of men to the gallows, won them to repentance at the last, and called them affectionately his 'hanged saints.'
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