Vittorio De Marino,
C.R.S.P.
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(7 June 1863 – 16 July 1929), was an
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physician
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known for his compassion for the poor of Naples and later a priest of the
Barnabite Order
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[ He was declared ]venerable
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by Pope John Paul II
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on 12 December 1992.
Life
Birth
He was born in Villaricca
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, in the Province of Naples
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to Francesco De Martino, a Chancellor
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of the trial court of Giugliano
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in Naples and in 1882 he chose to study medicine
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in compliance with his parents' will. He graduated from the University of Naples Federico II
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with honors, received a medical degree
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at the age of 24 and he became a well-known and admired doctor. He was known as the "Doctor of the poor" as he mainly took care of the poorest people and supported them with economic aids. In fact he usually left money in hidden places for the poor in order to give them the possibility to buy their medicines.
Faith
When his sister eventually died, De Marino, at the age of 47, decided to follow a religious vocation
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he had long felt, but which had been hindered by his parents. So, on 21 April 1910, he entered the novitiate
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of the Barnabite Fathers in San Felice a Cancello
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It has a mostly agricultural economy.
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in Caserta
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, where he professed his religious vow the following years.Archbasilica of St. John Lateran
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in Rome
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on 20 September 1913.
De Marino's first role of priestly ministry was at San Felice a Cancello in the church of St John the Evangelist. In 1916 he was appointed Superior of the community and he kept on practicing as a doctor during World War I
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and during the worldwide pandemic of the Spanish flu
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that took many victims. In 1922 he was appointed Rector
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of the new Apostolic School of the Barnabites in Arpino
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, and in 1924 he became the Superior of the community of Santa Maria di Caravaggio in Piazza Dante, Naples
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Death
De Marino was diagnosed with prostate cancer
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, which quickly got worse and led to his death on 16 July 1929 in Naples at the Bianchi College.Poggioreale
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and then moved to San Giovanni Evangelista Church in San Felice a Cancello
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It has a mostly agricultural economy.
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on 2 May 1954, twenty-five years later. In the same year the process for his beatification
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began.
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External links
Some places and memories related to Vittorio De Marino
Vittorio De Marino's brief biography
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1863 births
1929 deaths
People from the Province of Naples
University of Naples Federico II alumni
Italian general practitioners
Members of the Barnabite Order
20th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests
Deaths from prostate cancer
Deaths from cancer in Campania
Venerated Catholics by Pope John Paul II