ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 21st of July WELCOME! SAINT ALBERIC CRESCITELLI, PRIEST AND MARTYR Born in 1863 near Naples, Italy, Alberic joined the Milan Foreign Missionary Society. On completion of his studies and formation, he was consecrated a priest in 1887 in the Basilica of Saint John Lateran. Fr Alberic was received by Pope Leo XIII and given the missionary crucifix. On April 2, 1888, he left Rome for Marseille where he boarded the steamship to China. HIS ARRIVAL AT THE MISSION He arrived at his mission in August 1888. The Vicariate of Hanzhong (which is now the diocese of Hanchung and the mission site of Fr Alberic) was almost all non-Christian at the time, with a myriad of problems, including opium smokers who also infected the pious Christian minority. Fr Alberic learned the language remarkably quickly and made a point of blending in with the locals in appearance. FR ALBERIC'S MARTYRDOM He worked in schools and missions along the Han River un