Philipp Rinaldi
Italian catholic priest (1856-1931)
Feast: 5 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Filippo Rinaldi (28 May 1856 – 5 December 1931) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco; he served as the third Rector Major for the order from 1922 until his death in 1931. He founded the Secular Institute of Don Bosco Volunteers. Rinaldi was close friends since his childhood to Giovanni Bosco and Paolo Albera and it was Bosco who guided Rinaldi who was torn in his adolescence between the farming life and the religious life. The order held him in high esteem from the outset and noted the potential within him as well as seeing the charism of Bosco encompassed in Rinaldi.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q255311 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Filippo Rinaldi (CC BY-SA)
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