BL. GIUSEPPE AMBROSOLI, SURGEON, PRIEST, AND MISSIONARY

BL. GIUSEPPE AMBROSOLI, SURGEON, PRIEST, AND MISSIONARY - 27 MARCH

BLESSED GIUSEPPE AMBROSOLI, SURGEON, PRIEST, AND MISSIONARY

Blessed Giuseppe Ambrosoli was born July 25, 1923 in, Como, Italy. He died on March 27, 1987.

Comboni Missionary Fr Giuseppe Ambrosoli dedicated his life to helping the people of Kalongo, Uganda. On December 17, 2015 Pope Francis recognised the heroic virtues of Fr Giuseppe Ambrosoli, an Italian surgeon, priest and missionary. This is the first of several steps on the road to being named a saint.

THE CURE OF MRS LUCIA LOMOKOL

In May 2019, the cause for Servant of God Giuseppe Ambrosoli was furthered when the medical commission instituted by the Congregation for the Cause of Saints recognised as “extraordinary and unexplainable” from the clinical and scientific point of view the following cure: On the night of October 25, 2008 a 20 year old Ugandan lady, Mrs Lucia Lomokol, was dying of Septicemia (blood poisoning) after losing the baby she was carrying. In the hospital in northern Uganda, where she had been brought in extreme conditions, there were no other means, there was no hope to save her. But Dr Eric Dominic, originally from Turin, placed on her pillow the holy card of Fr Giuseppe and asked the relatives the pray to the “great doctor,” who had died on March 27, 1987 in Uganda, when he was forced to abandon the mission and his hospital that had been torched by guerrilla fighters. The next morning, Lucia had recovered, was alive and no one thought it would be possible.

WHO WAS FR GIUSEPPE AMBROSOLI?

Fr Ambrosoli was assigned to Kalongo, Uganda in 1956 where he served as a parish priest and took charge of running the local dispensary. The dispensary was started in a grass hut by Comboni Missionary Sister Eletta Mantiero in 1934. Soon after she started delivering babies and attending to medical and pediatric patients.

HE REVOLUTIONISED THE CARE FOR LEPROSY PATIENTS

In 1957 Fr Giuseppe began transforming the dispensary into a full-fledged hospital. At that time the dispensary was treating many leprosy patients. Fr Giuseppe revolutionised the care for leprosy patients by admitting them to the same hospital as other patients instead of confining them to the often neglected and poorly managed leprosarium.

ST MARY'S SCHOOL OF MIDWIFERY

Today the Kalongo Hospital, recently renamed the Dr Ambrosoli Memorial Hospital, is a 350-bed facility that treats nearly 60,000 patients every year. Another of Fr Giuseppe’s achievements was establishing the St Mary’s School of Midwifery in 1959.

For the full article by the Comboni Missionaries please see:

https://www.combonimissionaries.org/on-the-road-to-sainthood-fr-giuseppe-ambrosoli/

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Blessed Giuseppe may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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