Alberic Crescitelli
Italian missionary priest (1863-1900)
Feast: 9 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Alberico (Alberic) Crescitelli (1863–1900), Chinese name Guo Xide (Chinese: 郭西德), was an Italian Catholic priest and missionary to China. Born in Italy on 30 June 1863, Alberico Crescitelli entered the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions in 1880 and was ordained a priest on 4 June 1887. The following year, he went to China and began work in the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Shensi (now Diocese of Hanzhong) in southern Shaanxi.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q2664681 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Alberic Crescitelli (CC BY-SA)
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