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Blessed Luigi Tezza (21 November 1841 - 26 September 1923) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Camillians. He established the Daughters of Saint Camillus and is known as the Apostle of Lima. He was ordained in 1864 and went on to serve the sick and the poor in Peru where he administered. Tezza's new religious congregation was established with the sole aim of sick relief who followed the example of the Camillian order as a branch of it. On 4 November 2001 he was beatified as confirmation of his popular status as a Peruvian figure and as well as for his reputation for holiness. ==Life== Luigi Tezza was born on 21 November 1841 in Treviso as the sole child of Augustine Tezza (d. 1850) and Catherine Nedwiedt (d. 1880). After the death of his father in 1850 both he and his mother moved to Verona. At the age of 15 he entered as a postulant in the Camillian order in Verona. His mother later became a nun. Under the guidance of Father Luigi Artini he made his first religious profession on 8 December 1858. He was ordained to the priesthood on 21 May 1864 under the Bishop of Verona Luigi Di Canossa and travelled to Rome as a novice master. Tezza desired to join those in the missions in Africa but this was denied to him. He later spent over three decades in France after being sent there on 10 August 1871 where he became the superior of a small home where he worked to establish other homes and centers for the poor and the ill. Tezza - to that end - also formed a Camillian province in France. Due to the conflict between the state and the church in 1880 he was expelled due to his clerical status and that of being a foreigner. Despite this he returned to France in disguise to continue his work with the sick. In 1889 in Rome he was chosen as both the Vicar and Procurator General of his order where he commenced a project for a female branch of the Camillian order. He laid the foundation for such an establishment with Giuseppina Vannini - future Blessed - whom he met on 17 December 1891. With her aid Tezza founded on 2 February 1892 the Daughters of St. Camillus and he himself drew up the statutes for the new order. It began with about 50 women and it expanded at a rapid pace. The order was to receive the papal approval of Pope Pius XI in 1931. The Camilian order soon faced crisis in Peru and Tezza embarked for Peru on 3 May 1900; he arrived there in June 1900 with Father Angelo Ferroni in order to cater to the situation. However prior to departure the Archbishop of Lima Manuel Tovar y Chamorro requested that he remain a little bit longer - he would remain in Peru for the remainder of his life. Tezza devoted himself to an intense apostolate of caring for the sick as well as the poor in hospitals and homes as well as prisons. He served as the confessor and spiritual director in various religious congregations. He also helped Teresa Candamo Álvarez-Calderon - future Venerable - overcome her initial difficulties with her new order. Tezza died in Lima on 26 September 1923 and was mourned across Peru; he soon became known as the "Apostle of Lima". He was interred in the Generalate of his order in Rome. Cardinal Lorenzo Lauri described Tezza as "the holiest priest in the Diocese of Lima". 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「Luigi Tezza」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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