ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 21st of October WELCOME! SAINT GASPAR DEL BUFALO, PRIEST [Saint Gaspar del Bufalo was the] founder of the Missionaries of the most Precious Blood (C.P.P.S.); he was born at Rome on the feast of the Epiphany, 1786. His parents were Antonio del Bufalo, chief cook of the princely family of Altieri, and his wife Annunziata Quartieroni. Because of his delicate health, his pious mother had him confirmed at the tender age of one and a half years (1787). As he was suffering from an incurable malady of the eyes, which threatened to leave him blind, prayers were offered to St Francis Xavier for his recovery. In 1787, he was miraculously cured, wherefore he cherished in later life a special devotion to the great Apostle of India, and selected him as the special patron of the congregation which he founded. From his earliest years he had a great horror of even venial sins and showed deep piety, a spirit of mortificati...