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Daniel ComboniTHE LIFE OF A GREAT MISSIONARY |
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Daniel ComboniTHE LIFE OF A GREAT MISSIONARY |
Daniel Comboni is born at Limone sul Garda (Italy)
on 15th March 1831.
In 1849 he consecrates his life to Africa, thus setting in motion a life-project that will lead him to risk his life many times in exhausting missionary journeys, starting from his first arrival in Africa in 1857.
Confident that Africans will become the leading agents of their own evangelisation, he launches a project designed to "Save Africa through Africa" (Plan of 1864).
Faithful to his motto: "Africa, or Death!" despite all difficulties, he pushes ahead with his Plan by founding the Institute for the African Missions (Istituto per le Missioni della Nigrizia) in 1867.
He is a prophetic voice, proclaiming to the whole Church, especially in Europe, that the hour of salvation has come for the peoples of Africa. Though still a simple priest, he has no hesitation in approaching the first Vatican Council to petition the Bishops that "every local Church" be involved in the conversion of Africa (Letter, 1870).
In 1872, with unusual courage for those days, he founds his own Institute of Sisters consecrated exclusively to the missions: the Pie Madri della Nigrizia, now known as the Comboni Missionary Sisters.
He spends all his energies for the people of Africa in many fields, for example in his tireless struggle for the abolition of slavery.
In 1877 he is consecrated Bishop of Central Africa.
He dies in Khartoum (Sudan) in the late hours of 10th. October 1881, worn out by his toils and his crosses.
On 17th. March 1996 he is Beatified by John Paul II in St. Peter's.
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