22 AUGUST

 

 

GIUSEPPE ZANDONAI (priest)

 

 

BORN:                   Villalagarina (Trento) – 14.2.1853

ENTERED:            Verona - 1865

ORDAINED:          1877

DIED:                     Verona (Stimmate) – 22.8.1904

AGE:                       51 

 

After obtaining his qualification at the University of Padua he taught in the school of the Stimmate and he also became a principal for three years. At the same time he was working with the youth of the Marian Oratory.

From 1892 to 1899 he taught Church history at the Pontifical Vatican Seminary. From 1899 to 1903 he directed the boarding school of Udine. He was suddenly struck by paralysis and had to be brought to Verona, where he died a quiet death.

 

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