Bartolo Longo
Bartolo Longo, TOSD (10 February 1841 – 5 October 1926) was an Italian lawyer and former Satanic priest who returned to the Catholic faith and became a Dominican tertiary, dedicating his life to the rosary and the Virgin Mary. He was eventually awarded a papal knighthood of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. He was canonized by Pope Leo XIV on 19 October 2025.
In the Martyrology
- October 5 Saint Bartolo Longo, founder of the shrine of Pompeii and the Dominican Sisters of the Rosary