About Agostino Roscelli
Agostino Roscelli, also known as Augustine Roscelli, and Augustin Roscelli, was an Italian priest who inspired social change in Genoa, Italy for children and disadvantaged women. He was canonized a saint in the Catholic Church in 2001 by Pope John Paul II. Roscelli would induct the first of the nuns a week later, going on to act as their spiritual director. He gathered together a group of young women, and with them founded a "sewing workshop", in which girls could receive practical and professional training as well as Christian instruction. He became a master of the spiritual life, especially for the sisters that he founded, which saw him serene even in the most trying situations.
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