The stories about Blessed Bartolo Longo, who was beatified in 1980 by Pope St. John Paul II, are truly legendary. Blessed Bartolo Longo (photo: Wikimedia Commons) Angelo Stagnaro Blogs December 12 ...

By Henry Handley. Oct. 5 is the feast day of Blessed Bartolo Longo (1841–1926), described by Pope John Paul II as “a true apostle of the Rosary” in Rosarium Virginis Mariae.After abandoning ...

Blessed Bartolo Longo is regarded as the founder of modern Pompeii, a town that grew East of the famous ruins in 1891, after he commissioned the building of the city’s shrine of the Blessed ...

Blessed José Gregorio Hernández is known at the ‘doctor of the poor.’ Also to be canonized: Blessed Bartolo Longo. Additional causes were moved forward, including now-Venerable Emil Kapaun.

It was nice to learn about Blessed Bartolo Longo (1841-1926) who, as the Wikepedia puts it, “was an Italian lawyer who has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.

Pope: in Pompeii to entrust the synod and missionaries to the Virgin Mary ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On the afternoon of Sunday, October 19, after having venerated the remains of Blessed Bartolo Longo, the Holy Father Benedict XVI went to the Pontifical Shrine of ...