Luigi Variara
Luigi Variara (15 January 1875 – 1 February 1923) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco. He served for most of his life as part of the missions in Colombia where he worked with lepers and the children of outcast lepers. He was ordained as a priest while serving there and made it his mission to provide both relief and consolation.
He established his own religious congregation - the Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary - with the intention of allowing lepers and the children of lepers the chance to enter the religious life.
Pope John Paul II beatified Variara on 14 April 2002.
Patron saint of Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary; Missionary; Missionaries
In the Martyrology
- February 1 Blessed Luigi Variara, Salesian priest, founder of the Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary