ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 22nd of November WELCOME! BLESSED SALVATORE LILLI, PRIEST AND MARTYR, AND HIS COMPANIONS, MARTYRS Blessed Salvatore Lilli was born on June 19, 1853 in Cappadocia in the diocese and province of L'Aquila in Italy, a village in the Apennines west of Avezzano. His parents were Vincenzo Salvatore and Annunziata Lilli, and he was their sixth and last child. As a 17-year-old, he joined the Ordo Fratrum Minorum (OFM) on July 24, 1870, and on August 6, 1871, he made his first vows in the monastery of Nazzaro near Rome. HE MADE HIS VOWS When the religious orders were dissolved by the Italian government in 1873, Salvatore went to Palestine to stay there as a missionary. He first lived in the Franciscan monastery in Bethlehem, where he completed his philosophical studies and made his solemn vows on August 6, 1874. He then lived in Jerusalem, where he studied theology and was ordained a priest on April ...