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Agostino Roscelli
1818Jul, 27

Agostino Roscelli

Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest and saint (d. 1902)
Agostino Roscelli (27 July 1818 – 7 May 1902), also known as Augustine Roscelli, and Augustin Roscelli, was an Italian priest who inspired social change in Genoa, Italy for children and disadvantaged women. He was canonized a saint in the Catholic Church in 2001 by Pope John Paul II.

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