ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 23rd of May WELCOME! SAINT JOHN BAPTIST DE ROSSI, PRIEST St John Baptist de Rossi was born at Voltaggio in the Diocese of Genoa, February 22, 1698. He pursued his studies at the Collegium Romanum under the direction of the Jesuits . A member of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin and of the Ristretto of the Twelve Apostles established at the college, he led the members in the meetings and pious exercises, in visits to the sick in the hospitals and in other works of mercy. HE WAS ORDAINED PRIEST At the age of sixteen he entered the clerical state. Owing to indiscreet practices of mortification he contracted spells of epilepsy, notwithstanding which he made his course of scholastic philosophy and theology, in the college of the Dominicans, and, with dispensation, was ordained priest on March 8, 1721. Having reached the desired goal, he bound himself by vow to accept no ecclesiastical benefice unless commanded by obedience. ...