1. Vincent Pallotti, SAC was an Italian Catholic cleric and the founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, later known as the Pious Society of Missions.
20 Facts About Vincent Pallotti
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Vincent Pallotti is buried in the Church of San Salvatore in Onda.
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Vincent Pallotti was descended from the noble families of the Pallotti of Norcia and the De Rossi of Rome.
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Vincent Pallotti was the uncle of Cardinal Luigi Pallotti.
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Vincent Pallotti was given an assistant professorship at the Sapienza University but resigned it soon after to devote himself to pastoral work.
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Vincent Pallotti worked selflessly looking after the poor in the urban areas of the city for most of his life.
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Vincent Pallotti organized schools for shoemakers, tailors, coachmen, carpenters, and gardeners so that they could better work at their trade, as well as evening classes for young farmers and unskilled workers.
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Vincent Pallotti soon became known as a "second Saint Philip Neri".
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Vincent Pallotti once dressed up as an old woman to hear the confession of a man who threatened "to kill the first priest who came through the door".
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On 9 January 1835, Vincent Pallotti found the Union of the Catholic Apostolate.
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Vincent Pallotti appealed this decision to the pope and the order of dissolution was withdrawn.
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In 1835 Vincent Pallotti formed the priests and brothers of the Union he called together into a community he called the "Society of the Catholic Apostolate".
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However, as soon as Vincent Pallotti died in 1850 there was more trouble and presumably the original decree of dissolution was unearthed.
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Vincent Pallotti had an intense devotion to the mystery of the Most Blessed Trinity, and to the Virgin Mary.
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Vincent Pallotti's contemporaries, including the pope, considered him a saint during his life.
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Vincent Pallotti was beatified by Pope Pius XII on 22 January 1950.
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Vincent Pallotti was canonized in 1963 by Pope John XXIII.
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When Vincent Pallotti's body was exhumed in 1906 and 1950, examiners found his body to be incorrupt, a sign of holiness in the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Vincent Pallotti's body is enshrined in the church of San Salvatore in Onda, in Rome, where it can be seen.
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Vincent Pallotti was deemed a patron of Vatican II for his efforts toward building unity in the church through such practices as inviting the people of his community to worship in the Roman parishes of Eastern Catholic Churches.