Vincent Cimatti
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| Born | 15 July 1879 Celle, Faenza, Ravenna, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 6 October 1965 (aged 86) Tokyo, Japan |
Vincent Cimatti, SDB[1][2][3] was a Roman Catholic priest, bishop, prefect apostolic and Salesian provincial to Japan. He is founder of the Caritas Sisters of Jesus.[4][5] He is the brother of Maria Raffaella Cimatti, a member of the Hospitaler Sisters of Mercy, who was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1996.
Life
[edit]Cimatti was born on 15 July 1879 in Faenza, Ravenna, Italy to James and Rosa Pasi, the youngest of six children. He was ordained a priest at the age of 24. He led a group of Salesians to start a Salesian mission in Japan and was appointed prefect apostolic in 1935.
Cimatti died on 6 October 1965 in Japan. His body was re-exhumed in 1977 and found to be perfectly intact. His remains are kept in a crypt in Chofu.[6] He was declared venerable on 21 December 1991 by Pope John Paul II.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Don Vincent Cimatti – The Don Bosco of Japan". kjcpublications.org. Archived from the original on 2018-11-28. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ↑ Mampra, A; Puthenkalam, J (1999). Don Vincent Cimatti, SDB, the Don Bosco of Japan. Bangalore: Kristu Jyoti Publications, Salesians of Don Bosco. ISBN 8187370033. OCLC 184991629.
- ↑ Penelope Penguin (2009-01-13), Vincent Cimatti, retrieved 2017-09-09
- ↑ Lenssen, Frans A. (2013-01-18). Footprints in the ocean. History of the Catholic Church in Western Oceania (in German). Engelsdorfer Verlag. ISBN 9783862689385.
- ↑ "Caritas Sisters of Jesus". CARITAS DON BOSCO SCHOOL. Archived from the original on 2018-11-18. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
- ↑ "Ven. Vincent Cimatti | Salesian Missions". www.salesianmissions.org. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ↑ "Venerable Vincenzo Cimatti". CatholicSaints.Info. 2014-09-09. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
Dicastery for the Causes of Saints Stages of canonization: Servant of God → Venerable → Blessed → Saint | |
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