The stories about Blessed Bartolo Longo, who was beatified in 1980 by Pope St. John Paul II, are truly legendary.

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 spiritualism, a ...

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 ...

Even from his hospital bed, Pope Francis wanted to make sure to approve Bartolo Longo’s cause for sainthood. Pope St. John Paul II called him “The Man of Our Lady” because nobody was ...

He contracted polio, probably from one of the people he was helping, and died in 1925 at the age of 24. Blessed Bartolo Longo, an Italian lawyer born in 1841.

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.

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 ...

Recalling the life of Blessed Bartolo Longo, the pope stresses that anti-clericalism and superstition are not lacking in our day.

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 ...