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Tommaso Maria Fusco (1 December 1831 – 24 February 1891) was an Italian Roman Catholic
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who established the Daughters of Charity of the Most Precious Blood.
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beatified him in 2001 and his cause for sainthood still continues.


Life

Tommaso Maria Fusco was born on 1 December 1831 to Antonio Fusco and Stella Giordano as the seventh of eighth children. His mother died when he was six and his father when he was ten which led to his uncle Giuseppe adopting the children. In Nocera he commenced his studies for the priesthood in 1847 which also marked the death of his uncle. He was
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to the priesthood on 22 December 1855. Fusco served as a parish priest and opened a school in his own home. He became a member of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Nocera in 1857 and became a traveler in the south to preach. He also established the Priestly Society of the Catholic Apostolate as a means of supporting missions, and it was to receive the formal papal approval of
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in 1874. He then founded the Daughters of Charity of the Most Precious Blood on 6 January 1873 and served as a parish priest in Pagani from 1874 to 1887. He wrote a number of publications on a variety of different topics that included
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. He died at the beginning of 1891.


Beatification

The cause for sainthood commenced on a local level and spanned from 2 April 1955 to 10 December 1957. However the formal introduction of the cause came on 31 July 1981. The
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was sent to the
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so that the latter could evaluate whether he lived a life of
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.
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approved this and declared him to be
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on 7 July 2001, and he beatified him on 7 October 2001.


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