Joseph Marello

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    • Giuseppe Marello (known as Joseph Marello in English; 26 December 1844 – 30 May 1895) was an

    pastoral letters that dealt with a range of issues such as catechism and organized one big pastoral visitation to visit all parishes in his diocese.[3][4][5]

    Marello's cause for sainthood resulted in his beatification on 26 September 1993 in

    Saint Peter's Square
    .

    Life

    Childhood and priesthood

    Giuseppe Marello was born on 26 December 1844 on Bakers' Street in

    Bishop of Asti Filippo Artico. He was an altar server in his childhood, and he often invited the homeless to his home for food.[5] His father was a friend of Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo.[2]

    Marello's mother died on 5 April 1848, and in 1852 his father decided to relocate with his children to San Martino Alfieri, where his paternal grandparents resided.[4]

    Marello began his studies for the priesthood on 31 October 1856, but his father wished him to continue with his education and take up a career in business. But in December 1863 Giuseppe contracted

    diaconate on 6 June 1868. Marello was ordained to the priesthood on 19 September 1868 with Savio again officiating. The new priest celebrated his first Mass on 20 September 1868 in San Martino Alfieri.[4]

    After his ordination, he became the private assistant to Bishop Savio at

    Oblates of Saint Joseph
    which would be dedicated to caring for the poor and educating children and adolescents as well as rendering assisting bishops in whatever capacities were required.

    Episcopate

    Pope Leo XIII appointed him

    episcopal consecration on 17 February, from Cardinal Raffaele Monaco La Valletta in the Capuchin Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome.[4]
    The co-consecrators were the Archbishop of Chieti Rocco Cocchia and the Archbishop of Damiata Ignazio Persico.

    He visited all the parishes in his diocese and wrote six

    penance on 13 January 1891. On 26 September 1891 he participated in a pilgrimage to Rome for the third centennial of the death of Aloysius Gonzaga and later on 4 February 1892 issued another pastoral letter on the subject of Christian education. Bishop Marello issued another one on 25 January 1893 regarding the profession of faith. From 14 to 28 February 1893 he went to Rome to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's episcopal consecration though on 23 February made a detour to Naples to visit the Pompeii shrine. He issued another pastoral letter on catechism on 20 January 1894 and a final one on 8 February 1895 regarding missions and the propagation of the faith.[5]

    Death

    Marello travelled to

    cerebral hemorrhage
    on 30 May 1895.

    Marello was due to leave a week after the centennial celebration, but wanted to offer his respects to Bishop Giuseppe Boraggini of the diocese of Savona (1879–1897), who was not there, and so Marello decided to stay longer in the town until Boraggini's return; this was on 27 May 1895, after he celebrated what would be his final Mass. Marello first went on a Marian pilgrimage in the town and then called on the bishop that evening; he was exhausted but accepted a dinner invitation.[4] But as the bishop showed him the room where Pope Pius VII was once confined in he fainted and was rushed to a bed. The illness did not seem at all serious, so his aide telegrammed the Acqui diocese vicar-general to give word the illness would keep the bishop out of his see for a little while. But his acute headaches caused even the slightest noise to torment him.[4] On 28 May his two doctors thought they saw an improvement that indicated he might soon be able to leave, but the bishop's condition deteriorated on 29 May, and grew worse around 4:30pm on 30 May, when he managed with difficulty to utter a few garbled and incoherent words.[2]

    The cerebral hemorrhage claimed his life at 6:00pm on 30 May. His funeral was celebrated on 1 June. Leo XIII said of his death at a general audience in Rome in 1891: "he was a gem among bishops".[5] His remains were exhumed and relocated to his order's motherhouse on 30 June 1923. His order received diocesan approval on 18 March 1901 and papal approval from Pope Pius X on 11 April 1909.

    Parish

    The first parish church named after Giuseppe Marello was dedicated in

    Granite Bay
    , California, in the United States of America on 22 October 2011 at a celebration presided over by Bishop Jaime Soto along with the parish pastor Arnold Ortiz, .

    Sainthood

    The informative process for beatification opened in the Acqui diocese on 23 November 1924 and it concluded in April 1928 while another informative process was opened in Asti from 22 December 1924 and concluded in April 1928 much like the Acqui process; his spiritual writings and other collections received theological approval on 4 May 1937

    Venerable
    on 12 May 1978.

    For Marello to be beatified one miracle needed to be approved – a healing that science could not explain. One such case was investigated in the diocese of its origin and it later received C.C.S. validation prior to a panel of medical experts approving it on 17 December 1992. Theologians concurred with the verdict on 19 February 1993 as did the C.C.S. themselves on 16 March 1993.

    tubercular meningitis.[4]

    The second miracle that was investigated took place in

    Saint Peter's Square
    on 25 November 2001.

    References

    1. ^ a b c d "Saint Joseph Marello". Saints SQPN. 25 May 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
    2. ^ a b c d e "San Giuseppe Marello". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
    3. ^ a b c "Giuseppe Marello". Holy See. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
    4. ^ a b c d e f g h "St. Joseph Marello". Oblates of St. Joseph. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
    5. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Saint Joseph Marello". The Long Island Catholic. 6 May 2012. Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
    6. ^ a b Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum (in Latin). Typis polyglottis vaticanis. January 1953. p. 126.

    Further reading

    • Cartone, Giovanni Battista. Brevi memorie della vita di mons. Giuseppe Morello, vescovo d'Acqui e della con regazione da lui istituita. Asti: tip. Popolare, 1908. (in Italian)
    • Rainero, Angelo (1937). Profilo di Mons. Giuseppe Morello, Vescovo d'Acqui, fondatore degli Oblati di S. Giuseppe. Asti: Scuola tip. S. Giuseppe, 1937. (in Italian)

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