Few know about and pray to St. Joseph Freinademetz, a missionary saint who deserves our devotion in the present hour. Joseph was born in Oies, in Val Badia, a village in the meadows and woods at the foot of high mountains, on April 15 1852, into a family of peasants of deep faith. He was a Tyrolean, or more precisely a Ladin, a subject of Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary. The Ladins are a linguistic community spread through several valleys of the Dolomites and served by the diocese of Bressanone. It was in this small town in South Tyrol that Joseph was ordained a priest on July 25 1875. He made the choice to become a missionary and entered the Society of the Divine Word founded a few years earlier by Saint Arnold Janssen (1837-1909).
RORATE CÆLI: Why we should pray to St. Joseph Freinademetz and for the Church in China – by Roberto de Mattei
RORATE CÆLI: Why we should pray to St. Joseph Freinademetz and for the Church in China – by Roberto de Mattei
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