Luigi Orione
Don Luigi Orione (born June 23, 1872 in Pontecurone , Province of Alessandria , † March 12, 1940 in Sanremo , Liguria ) was an Italian priest who was canonized.
Life
He joined the Franciscans of Voghera on September 14, 1885 , but was sent away in 1886 due to a serious illness with risk of death. On October 4th he became a pupil at the oratorio of Valdocco in Turin, where he stayed for three years. There was a close bond between him and Don Bosco that lasted until Don Bosco's death in 1888. Immediately after Don Bosco's death, Orione's diseases were miraculously cured.
On October 16, 1889, he entered the seminary in Tortona (AL) in good health , where he was also entrusted with the task of Dommesner. On March 2, 1892, he began his youth apostolate and on July 3 of the same year he opened the Oratory of San Luigi, and a year later, on October 15, 1893, a college for the poor in the ruins of San Bernardino di Tortona.
On April 13, 1895, he was finally ordained a priest . In 1899 he began to gather a group of priests and clergy who together with him founded the “Work of Divine Providence”, which was approved in 1903 by the diocesan bishop . From this “work” the religious community “ Sons of Divine Providence ” developed.
In 1908 he went to Messina and Reggio Calabria , where an earthquake had destroyed everything. For three years he mainly devoted himself to the orphans. In Reggio di Calabria he contributed to the creation of the Santuario di Sant'Antonio . In the same way he got involved after the earthquake in Marsica in 1915.
In 1915 he founded the female congregation “Little Missionary Sister of Love” (Italian: “Congregazione delle Piccole Suore Missionarie della Carità”) within the “Work of Divine Providence”, from which two contemplative branches emerged.
At the end of the First World War, the Orionic plant began to expand, numerous colleges, agricultural colonies and charitable works and auxiliary institutions in Italy (Milan, Genoa, Rome) and around the world (Buenos Aires in Argentina, São Paulo in Brazil, Santiago in Chile) were founded.
He sent missionaries to Brazil (1913), Argentina and Uruguay (1921), Palestine (1921), Poland (1923), Rhodes (1925), the United States (1934), Great Britain (1935), Albania (1936).
Orione himself made missionary trips to Latin America (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay) in 1921/1922 and 1934 to 1937.
He also founded the Santuario di Nostra Signora della Guardia in Tortona (Province of Alessandria) in 1931 and the Santuario of the Madonna di Caravaggio in Fumo di Corvino San Quirico (Province of Pavia) in 1938 .
In the winter of 1940, Oriones began suffering from heart and lung diseases. He went to Sanremo to recover, but in vain.
Worship and canonization
His body was exhumed in 1965 and is in Tortona, a sanctuary that he founded.
Orione was beatified on October 26, 1980 and canonized on May 16, 2004 by Pope John Paul II .
literature
- Otto Wahl : Orione, Luigi. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 1272-1274.
- Ennio Apeciti: Orione, Luigi Giovanni, santo. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 79: Nursio – Ottolini Visconti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2013.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Orione, Luigi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Orione, Don Luigi (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian priest who was canonized |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pontecurone , Alessandria Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1940 |
| Place of death | Sanremo , Liguria |