Guglielmo Massaia
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His Eminence Guglielmo Massaia, O.F.M. Cap. Venerable |
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| Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Vitale, Gervasio e Protasio | |
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Appointed | 13 November 1884 |
| Term ended | 6 August 1889 |
| Predecessor | Antoine-Pierre IX Hassun |
| Successor | Albin Dunajewski |
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| Ordination | 16 June 1832 |
| Consecration | 24 May 1846 by Giacomo Filippo Fransoni |
| Created Cardinal | 10 November 1884 by Pope Leo XIII |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Birth name | Lorenzo Antonio Massaia |
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9 June 1809 Piovà, Asti, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia |
| Died | 6 August 1889 (aged 80) San Giorgio a Cremano, Naples, Kingdom of Italy |
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| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Title as Saint | Venerable |
| Attributes | Franciscan habit |
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Styles of Guglielmo Massaia |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | none |
Guglielmo Massaia (9 June 1809 - 6 August 1889), born Lorenzo Massaia, was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who was also a missionary and Capuchin friar. His baptismal name was Lorenzo; he took Guglielmo as religious name.
His cause of canonization has commenced the confirmation of his heroic virtue allowed for Pope Francis to name him as Venerable on 1 December 2016.
Guglielmo Massaia was born on 9 June 1809 in Piedmont as Lorenzo Antonio Massaia.
He was first educated at the Collegio Reale at Asti under the care of his elder brother Guglielmo who served as a canon and precentor of Asti Cathedral. On the death of his brother he passed as a student to the diocesan seminary in 1824; but at the age of sixteen entered the Capuchin Franciscan Order, receiving the habit on 25 September 1825. He completed studies at the seminary in 1826. He took the name of "Guglielmo" around this time.
Massaia was ordained to the priesthood on 16 June 1832 in Vercelli and served as a spiritual director at a hospital in Turin from 1834 to 1836. He served also as the confessor and advisor of Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo - future saint.
He was appointed as a lector of theology; but even whilst teaching he acquired some fame as a preacher and was chosen confessor to Prince Victor Emmanuel, afterwards King of Italy, and Ferdinand, Duke of Genoa. The royal family of Piedmont would have nominated him on several occasions to an episcopal see, but he wanted to join the foreign missions of his order.
He obtained his wish in 1846. That year the Congregation of Propaganda, at the instance of the traveller Antoine d'Abbadie, determined to establish the Apostolic Vicariate of Galla for the Oromo in Ethiopia. The mission was confided to the Capuchins, and Massaia was appointed as the first vicar-apostolic. He received episcopal consecration in Rome on 24 May of that year in the church of San Carlo al Corso.
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