Contardo Ferrini, patron of universities, was a member of the Society of St. Vincent dePaul and the saint featured on AmericanCatholic.org for October 26.Contardo Ferrini was the son of a teacher who went on to become a learned man himself, one acquainted with some dozen languages.
His death in 1902 at the age of 43 occasioned letters from his fellow professors that praised him as a saint; the people of Suna where he lived insisted that he be declared a saint. Pope Pius XII beatified Contardo in 1947.
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