Nazju Falzon

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Nazju Falzon (1 July 1813 – 1 July 1865) was a

ordained priest because he did not feel he was adequate enough for such an honor.[1] He became an apt catechist and noted for his commitment to religious instruction.[2]

Falzon's beatification took place in mid-2001 in Malta when Pope John Paul II visited the island nation.[3][4]

Life

Nazju Falzon Palace - his house in Birkirkara.
Plaque on his house in Birkirkara.

Nazju Falzon was born in

priesthood.[1]
His brother Anthony became a lawyer and married while his two brothers Kalcidon and Francis became priests themselves.

He obtained a doctorate in law on 7 September 1883.[2] He received the tonsure and his clerical habit on 20 December 1828 and on 21 December 1828 was instituted as a cleric in a Mass that Mgr. Publius M. Sant presided over.

Falzon received the

Jesuit church in the capital of Valletta. The soldiers would leave their valuables with him if the soldiers had to go to the battlefield in the knowledge that he would pass them on to their loved ones if killed or missing.[2]

He imported simple texts in various vernacular languages and distributed them to his flock to read; he was also a writer and was responsible for "The Comfort of the Christian Soul". He became a mentor to those who remained on the island and served them as a pastor and performing marriages as well as [baptisms and funerals. He had a strong devotion to the Eucharist and to the Archangel Raphael as well as devotions to Saint Joseph and to Benedict Joseph Labre.[3][4]

Falzon died in 1865 due to a

heart attack (he experienced heart spasms for a long duration) and was interred in the Falzon Vault though later moved to the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception in the local Franciscan church. The Franciscan priest Marjan Vella wrote a biographical account of the late cleric titled "Glorja tal-Kleru Malti".[3][5]

Beatification

The beatification cause opened in an informative process that spanned from 1882 until its closure in 1889. Falzon's writings spiritual writings were approved by theologians on 16 December 1902, and Falzon's cause was formally opened on 13 April 1904 under

Venerable on 23 October 1987 after Pope John Paul II confirmed that the late Maltese cleric led a life of heroic virtue
.

The process for a miracle took place in the diocese of its origin and concluded on 28 June 1999 before the C.C.S. validated the process on 5 February 2000; a medical board approved this on 19 February 2001 which theologians and the C.C.S. also backed up. John Paul II approved this miracle and beatified Falzon on his visit to Malta on 9 May 2001. The beatification miracle involved the 1981 cure of a man stricken with cancer.[1]

The current postulator for this cause is Fra Giovangiuseppe Califano.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Blessed Nazju Falzon". Saints SQPN. 26 June 2015. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d "Nazju Falzon". EWTN. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d "Bl. Nazju Falzon, SFO". Steven Wood. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  4. ^ a b c "Blessed Ignazio (Nazju) Falzon". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  5. ^ "Untitled Document". Order of Friars Minor. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  6. ^ Index ac status causarum beatificationis servorum dei et canonizationis beatorum (in Latin). Typis polyglottis vaticanis. January 1953. p. 98.

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