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About St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
1838 – 1862 · Feast February 27 · Religious / Passionist
Italian Passionist student (1838-1862), Francesco Possenti, son of an Assisi magistrate, entered the Passionists at 18 and died of tuberculosis as a seminarian at Isola del Gran Sasso. Patron of Italian youth and clerical students; his shrine in the Abruzzo is a major Italian pilgrimage center. Canonized 1920 by Benedict XV.
St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows is the patron saint of College Students, Clerics, Young People and Abruzzo.
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