Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
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Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, O.S.B. |
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| Archbishop of Milan | |
Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster (1944)
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Milan |
| Metropolis | Milan |
| See | Milan |
| Appointed | 26 June 1929 |
| Term ended | 30 August 1954 |
| Predecessor | Eugenio Tosi |
| Successor | Giovanni Battista Montini |
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| Ordination | 19 March 1904 by Pietro Respighi |
| Consecration | 21 July 1929 by Pope Pius XI |
| Created Cardinal | 15 July 1929 by Pope Pius XI |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Birth name | Alfredo Ludovico Schuster |
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18 January 1880 Rome, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 30 August 1954 (aged 74) Venegono Inferiore, Varese, Italy |
| Buried | Cathedral of Milan |
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| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | 30 August |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 12 May 1996 Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
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| Patronage | Archdiocese of Milan |
Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, O.S.B. (18 January 1880 – 30 August 1954), was a Benedictine monk and served as Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan during World War II.
He was beatified on 12 May 1996 by Pope John Paul II.
Alfredo Ludovico Schuster was born on 18 January 1880 in Rome, Italy, the son of Giovanni (Johann) Schuster, a Bavarian tailor and double widower, and Maria Anna Tutzer. Schuster's sister, Giulia, entered the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. Schuster also had three half-siblings from his father's second marriage. As a young child, Schuster was briefly kidnapped. He served as an altar boy at the church of the German Cemetery, next to St. Peter's Basilica.
Schuster completed his secondary-level studies (ginnasiali and liceali) at the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in November 1891. On 13 November 1898, he joined the Order of St. Benedict at the novitiate of the monastery community of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, when he took the name Ildefonso and later professed monastic vows on 13 November 1900. He graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy on 14 June 1903 and later received a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm in Rome.
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