Marcantonio Durando
Marcantonio Durando, CM (22 May 1801 – December 1880) was an Italian Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Mission. He founded the Daughters of the Passion of Jesus the Nazorean (1865), or Nazarene Sisters, with the assistance of Luigia Borgiotti.
Durando was made a Servant of God on 23 March 1941 under Pope Pius XII and Pope John Paul II both declared him as Venerable on 1 July 2000 and beatified him on 20 October 2002.
Patron saint of Nazarene Sisters; Missionaries
In the Martyrology
- December 10 Blessed Marcantonio Durando, Vincentian priest, founder of Nazarean Sisters