Bernard Mary of Jesus

Blessed Bernard Mary of Jesus, C.P. was a priest and member of the Congregation of the Passion, hailed as its Second Founder. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988.

He was born onNovember 1831 in Rome to Gian Tommaso and Teresa Silvestrelli, residents of the Piazza della Minerva and baptized with the name Cesare Pietro that same day. His mother died when he wasyears old. He did his initial education at the Jesuit Roman College and thereafter continued his studies at the Oratory of Caravita. He was attracted to the life of the Passionists and entered the novitiate of the congregation at St. Joseph Monastery in Monte Argentario, Tuscany, onMarch 1854, at the age of 22. At that time he received the religious habit and was given the name Aloysius of the Sacred Heart of Mary onApril. A month later, however, he was forced to leave the novitiate due to ill health, but continued living with the Passionists in another house in the same town while he did theological studies.

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