ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 3rd of April WELCOME! SAINT LUIGI SCROSOPPI, PATRON SAINT OF FOOTBALL (SOCCER) In 1806 Carlo Filaferro [Saint Luigi's half-brother] entered the Congregation of the Oratory in Udine. This Oratorian house had been founded in 1650 and served the church of St Maria Maddalena (now demolished - the Central Post Office occupies its site). Carlo was ordained priest in 1809, but the following year the Congregation was suppressed, and the twelve Fathers and three Brothers were expelled from their house and church. We need to remember that this was the age of Napoleon and of short-lived revolutionary governments - a time of difficulty for the Church, when so much of the cultural, spiritual and material heritage of Catholic Europe was wrecked. It was on the orders of the Napoleonic regime in northern Italy that the Oratory was suppressed. F. Carlo returned to live with his mother, stepfather and their children, and probably...