Blessed Giovanni Fausti

1899–1946 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Feast day: March 4

Biography

Giovanni Fausti, born on October 19, 1899, in Marcheno, in the province of Brescia (Italy), and died by firing squad on March 4, 1946, in Shkodër, Albania, was an Italian Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus and a missionary in Albania who was killed in odium fidei during the religious persecution carried out by the communist regime of Enver Hoxha. He is venerated as a Blessed by the Catholic Church.

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