Hildebrand Gregori

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Hildebrand Gregori,

Life

He was born Alfredo Gregori in Poggio Cinolfo, part of the town of Carsoli in the Province of L'Aquila. At age twelve, Gregori joined the Sylvestrines, a branch of the Benedictines. He began his novitiate in 1909 taking the name of Ildebrando (Hildebrand). He was ordained a priest in 1922.^[1]

In 1939 he was elected Abbot General of the congregation, and as such was based at the monastery of Santo Stefano del Cacco in Rome, General Motherhouse of the Order. It was at Rome that he met Mother Maria Pierina De Micheli and developed a devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus.^[1]

The abbot was moved at the plight of the many orphans and street children he saw in Rome during

In 1950, Gregori formed the Prayerful Sodality, which in 1977 became the

On 27 September 2000, the 50th anniversary of the religious congregation he had founded, Gregori was honored by an official letter from Pope John Paul II to Cardinal Fiorenzo Angelini.^[3]

Gregori died at his monastery in November 1985.^[1]

Veneration

The 7 November 2014 was then declared