The missionary who stood "before the sun"
OMPRESS-ROMA (07/04/1911) On 2 April, the pope has signed the decree on the miracle that opens the way for the beatification of Father Clemente Vismara, a missionary in Burma for 65 years, died in 1988 at the age of 91.
Agrate Brianza Born in 1897, was a hero in the First World War where he earned three medals for military valor, but in 1923 is priest and missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions. It is intended to Kengtung, a mountainous area and almost unexplored forests of Burma at that time. There he founded three missions from scratch that are now parishes, establishing an orphanage for 250 children. Gradually born a Christian community and attending the Italian Sisters of Mary Girls to help so you can establish schools, chapels, create rice fields, irrigation canals, teach carpentry and mechanics, build homes and bring in new crops such as carrots and onions.
His beatification will take place in Milan on June 26 next.
His commitment to the mission was so great that Piero Gheddo who wrote his biography in 1998 titled "Prima del Sole" (Before the sun).
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