Justin Russolillo
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Blessed Giustino Russolillo |
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| Priest | |
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18 January 1891 Pianura, Naples, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 2 August 1955 (aged 64) Pianura, Naples, Italy |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 7 May 2011, Comunale Pallucci Street, Pianura, Naples, Italy by Cardinal Angelo Amato |
| Feast | 2 August |
| Attributes | Priest's attire |
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Blessed Giustino Russolillo (18 January 1891 – 2 August 1955) - in religious Giustino Maria SS. Trinità - was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the founder of both the Vocationist Fathers and the Vocationist Sisters as well as the Apostles of Universal Sanctification. Russolillo served lifelong in Pianura where he was born and dedicated his life to cultivating the vocations of those around him and leading men and women either to the priesthood or to the religious life.
Russolillo was beatified under Pope Benedict XVI in mid-2011 and it was Cardinal Angelo Amato who beatified the late priest on the behalf of the pope.
Giustino Russolillo was born in Pianura in 1891 as the third of ten children to Luigi Russolillo and Giuseppina Simpatia. He was baptized the date after his birth due to exceptional snowfall that prevented them from going down to the local parish. While his name in the parish register was recorded as Giustino his civic record had his name recorded as "Giustino Pietro Orazio". His sister was Giovanna - who joined his female order - and his brother was a doctor who helped tend to him in his final month.
He received his First Communion in 1896 and received private instruction from his paternal aunts as well as Father Orazio Guillaro instructing him in Latin. Once he completed his studies in Pozzuoli to become a priest - he was there since 1901 - he was ordained as such on 20 September 1913. On his ordination he vowed to establish a religious congregation for promoting vocations to the priesthood and to religious life. On 30 April 1914 - with a group of men that had been in formation (as a seminarian he used to teach catechism in his town and he found in some of them some true signs of vocation and continued to give them formation even after becoming a priest) - he tried to set up a small group dedicated to this but this did not last too long.
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