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Saint Joseph Cafasso on Worldliness and Fewness of those saved. Heliotropiummo1 — October 13, 2009 — Retelling of the story given by St. Joseph Cafasso on worldliness and fewness of those saved.More
Saint Joseph Cafasso on Worldliness and Fewness of those saved.
Heliotropiummo1 — October 13, 2009 — Retelling of the story given by St. Joseph Cafasso on worldliness and fewness of those saved.
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The story given by St. Joseph Cafasso
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The Little Number of Those Who Are Saved
by St. Leonard of Port Maurice
Saint Leonard of Port Maurice was a most holy Franciscan friar who lived at the monastery of Saint Bonaventure in Rome. He was one of the greatest missioners in the history of the Church. He used to preach to thousands in the open square of every city and town where the churches could not …More
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The Little Number of Those Who Are Saved
by St. Leonard of Port Maurice

Saint Leonard of Port Maurice was a most holy Franciscan friar who lived at the monastery of Saint Bonaventure in Rome. He was one of the greatest missioners in the history of the Church. He used to preach to thousands in the open square of every city and town where the churches could not hold his listeners. So brilliant and holy was his eloquence that once when he gave a two weeks' mission in Rome, the Pope and College of Cardinals came to hear him. The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin, the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and the veneration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus were his crusades. He was in no small way responsible for the definition of the Immaculate Conception made a little more than a hundred years after his death. He also gave us the Divine Praises, which are said at the end of Benediction. But Saint Leonard's most famous work was his devotion to the Stations of the Cross. He died a most holy death in his seventy-fifth year, after twenty-four years of uninterrupted preaching.
One of Saint Leonard of Port Maurice's most famous sermons was "The Little Number of Those Who Are Saved." It was the one he relied on for the conversion of great sinners. This sermon, like his other writings, was submitted to canonical examination during the process of canonization. In it he reviews the various states of life of Christians and concludes with the little number of those who are saved, in relation to the totality of men.
The reader who meditates on this remarkable text will grasp the soundness of its argumentation, which has earned it the approbation of the Church. Here is the great missionary's vibrant and moving sermon.
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Born
January 15, 1811(1811-01-15)
Castelnuovo, Piedmont, Italy
Died
June 23, 1860 (aged 49)
Turin, Italy
Venerated in
Roman Catholic
Beatified
1925
Canonized
1947
Feast
June 22
Attributes
Minister
Patronage
prison chaplains, captives, imprisoned people and prisoners
Turin, born in Castelnuovo d'Asti, Piedmont, Italy.Turin [1], who took it as their job to minister to the dispossessed, marginalised …More
Born
January 15, 1811(1811-01-15)
Castelnuovo, Piedmont, Italy
Died
June 23, 1860 (aged 49)
Turin, Italy
Venerated in
Roman Catholic
Beatified
1925
Canonized
1947
Feast
June 22
Attributes
Minister
Patronage
prison chaplains, captives, imprisoned people and prisoners

Turin, born in Castelnuovo d'Asti, Piedmont, Italy.Turin [1], who took it as their job to minister to the dispossessed, marginalised and often criminal elements of a city in the throes of industrialisation. He was the apostle of prisons and the comforter of those condemned to the death penalty, and was called "The Priest of the Gallows".patron saint of prison chaplains, captives, imprisoned people, prisoners and prisons.Turin at the road crossing of Corso Regina Margherita, Corso Principe Eugenio and Corso Valdocco (called the Rondò della Forca, or the Gallows Roundabout).Saint John Bosco