ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 18th of June WELCOME! BLESSED GREGORY BARBADIGO, CARDINAL BISHOP OF PADUA, CONFESSOR Blessed Gregory Lewis Barbadigo was born in 1625 of an ancient and noble Venetian family. From his tender years he cultivated his mind with polite and solid studies, and with much greater ardour adorned his soul with a perfect spirit of all Christian virtues, in which he made every day greater progress. THE TREATY OF WESTPHALIA He was sent by the republic of Venice with its ambassador Aloysius Contarini, one of the mediators at the famous congress of Munster, where the celebrated treaty, commonly of Westphalia, Osnabruck, or Munster, was signed by the plenipotentiaries of Germany, France, and Sweden, on October 24, 1648. There Fabius Chigi, apostolic nuncio, became acquainted with him, and was exceedingly charmed with his virtue and other great qualities, and being chosen pope under the name of Alexander VII in 1655, was alw...