Zaccarian May Calendar

May is certainly an exciting month for us!

May

May 1
1580 Giovanni Andrea Scaglioli died. He was one of the first Coadjutor Brothers accepted into the Order in 1542.

May 2
1903 – Death of Fr Giosuè Magnaghi, who had the crypt under the Church of San Baranaba made for the relics of the Holy Founder.

May 4
1904 – Venerable Fr. Cesare Barzaghi, servant of the poor and Apostle of Lodi, Italy passed away. His heroic virtues were declared in 1993.

May 8
1891 – Finding of the body of St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria in the “scurolo” (underground crypt) of the church of San Paolo Converso of the Angelic Sisters.

May 10
1544 - Death of Antonietta Pescaroli, mother of St. Anthony Mary, after having consigned to the Angelics of San Marta of Cremona the manuscripts of her son’s Sermons to the Amicizia Oratory.

May 12
1854 – Death of Cardinal Lambruschini, Barnabite Archbishop of Genoa, Nuncio to Paris and Secretary of State for Pope Gregory XVI.

May 13
1890 - Reintegration of the cult of St. Anthony Mary by a decree of Urban VIII.
1954 – Death of Ven. Brother Teodoreto delle Scuole Cristiane (Giovanni Gaberoglio), founder of the Unione dei Catechisti del SS. Crocifisso e di Maria SS. Immacolata (1948).

May 16
1954 - Death of Fr. Francesco Richard, Foudner and First Prelate of the Mission of Guamà in the Amazon.

May 17
1551 – The young Alexander Sauli, Patron of Barnabite Students (youth), is accepted in the Congregation after having preached Christ Crucified in the Piazza Mercanti of Milan.

May 22
1732 – Death of the Servant of God, Bishop Raimondo Recrosio, Theologian of the Divine Love.
1986 Death of Fr. Giovanni Bernasconi, Superior General of the Order and Council Father (participant) in the Second Vatican Council, whose reforms he promoted.

May 25
1579 – Promulgation of the Barnabite “Constitutions of 1579”

26 May
1537 – Founder writes letter to the Angelics prior to the Vincenza Mission.
1595 – Death of St. Philip Neri friend of the Barnabites, so influential in the founding of a Barnabite Community in Rome.

27 May
1897 – Pope Leo XIII canonized St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria

30 May
1993 - Decree of Approval of the Discepole del Crocifisso, founded by Fr. Gaetano Barbiere (d. 2008) in 1961, as a diocesan Secular Institute.

31 May
1530 - Anthony Mary writes his spiritual father, Fra Battista da Crema, from Milan.
1856 – Famous author, Alessandro Manzoni, alumnus of the Barnabite Coleggio dei Nobili in Milan, affiliated to the Order.