Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster


Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, O.S.B. , was a Benedictine monk and served as Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan during World War II.

Alfredo Ludovico Schuster was born onJanuary 1880 in Rome, Italy, the son of Giovanni Schuster, a Bavarian tailor and double widower, and Maria Anna Tutzer. Schusters sister, Giulia, entered the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. Schuster also had three halfsiblings from his fathers second marriage. As a young child, Schuster was briefly kidnapped. He served as an altar boy at the church of the German Cemetery, next to St. Peters Basilica.

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