Luigi Guanella

Career

The Servants of Charity motto reads "In Omnibus Charitas" (In all things Love). Guanella was beatified in 1964 by Pope Paul VI and canonized a saint on October 23, 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI. He needed two separate skull surgeries and was in a coma for nine days with a grave prognosis. According to the Opera"s website, Glisson was released from the hospital less than a month after the accident and returned to work just seven months later.

Achievements

• He is the founder of several religious institutes: Daughters of Street Mary of Providence, 1890, Servants of Charity in Como on March 24, 1908, with his friends David Albertario and Giuseppe Toniolo, and the Pious Union of Street Joseph in 1914 with his supporter and first member Pope Pius X. These religious communities focus on relief of the poor throughout the world.