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Aurelio Bacciarini (8 November 1873 – 27 June 1935) was a Swiss Roman Catholic who served as the interim administrator of the Diocese of Lugano. He was a professed member of the Servants of Charity - also known as the Guanellians - and was also the founder of the Secular Institute of the Company of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus. He became known in his diocese as the "Apostle of the Sacred Heart". He was proclaimed to be Venerable in 2008 after Pope Benedict XVI recognized that he had lived a life of heroic virtue. A miracle attributed to his intercession required for his beatification is now under investigation. ==Life== Aurelio Bacciarini was born in Ticino in Switzerland on 8 November 1873 to Lodovico and Maria Sciarini as the seventh of eight children; one older sister was Filomena. He was baptized on 9 November under the Provost Father Pietro Vaghetti with the names of "Stefano Aurelio". The eighth child - a sister - died in 1875 soon after birth and his father died on 6 September 1876. He went to Vaghetti for support in following his vocation and he soon commenced his theological studies in Milan. He was ordained to the priesthood on 12 June 1897 in Rome in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli. He served as a spiritual director from 1903 to 1906. On 8 October 1906 in Como he entered Luigi Guanella's order and ascended to the post of its Superior General in 1915. The beginning of 1917 saw Pope Benedict XV appoint him as the Apostolic Administrator of Lugano and he received his episcopal consecration a week later in Rome under Cardinal Basilio Pompilj. He was also consecrated as the Titular Bishop of Daulia. Bacciarini was committed to the reorganization of Catholic Action as well as the promotion of crucifixes in public spaces. His program for his diocese was thus: *Renew religious life in families *Educate children in the faith Bacciarini established several diocesan institutions that included a newspaper - "Giornale del Popolo" - in 1926 and his own religious congregation at the same time. He was described as the "Apostle of the Sacred Heart". Bacciarini died on 27 June 1935 at 4:45pm in Lugano. He was buried in the Shrine of the Sacred Heart. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aurelio Bacciarini」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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