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St. Daniel Comboni: African Mission Pioneer

This document provides biographical information about Saint Daniel Comboni over 3 paragraphs. It states that he was born in 1831 in Italy and felt a calling to preach the Gospel in Africa. He established the Sons of the Sacred Heart religious congregation in 1867 to devote to the African mission. In 1872 he was consecrated bishop and headed the vast Vicariate Apostolic of Central Africa, embracing Sudan, Nubia and territories south of Africa's great lakes.

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St. Daniel Comboni: African Mission Pioneer

This document provides biographical information about Saint Daniel Comboni over 3 paragraphs. It states that he was born in 1831 in Italy and felt a calling to preach the Gospel in Africa. He established the Sons of the Sacred Heart religious congregation in 1867 to devote to the African mission. In 1872 he was consecrated bishop and headed the vast Vicariate Apostolic of Central Africa, embracing Sudan, Nubia and territories south of Africa's great lakes.

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Lives

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Saints 1831 - 1881
Feastday: 10th October

I was born in 1831 in Italy. Preparing for ordination as a


secular priest, I studied not only theology but languages
and medicine. I felt a special calling to preach the Gospel
in Africa. I spent the first three years after my ordination in
Italy, then, in 1857, I set out for Africa and worked for two
years along the White Nile. Ill-health, however, obliged me
to return to Italy. There I continued to lay plans for my work
in Africa.
In 1867 I established in Verona, Italy, the Sons of the Sacred
Heart, whose members were to devote themselves
exclusively to the African mission. This institute later became
a fully-fledged religious congregation of priests and
brothers. Today it bears the name of the Combonian
Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus, or the Verona
Fathers. The Missionary Sisters of Verona were established
some time later.
In 1872 I was consecrated bishop to head the Vicariate
Apostolic of Central Africa. This was an immense missionary
“The works of diocese embracing the Sudan, Nubia and territories south
of Africa's great lakes.
God are born
I published a lot of scientific work, particularly on African
at the foot of geography and ethnology, I spoke six European
the Cross.” languages, as well as Arabic and three African languages,
compiled a dictionary of the Nubian language, appealed
St Daniel Comboni to Europe on behalf of Sudanese suffering because of a
devastating famine and struggled against the slave trade.
I insisted that my missionaries, men and women alike, be
specially trained to understand Black society and the perils
of the mission lands. I wanted them to recognize the need
of fully understanding the mentality of those who they
worked with. Meanwhile, I cultivated the friendship of the
African civil authorities, and worked effectively through
them to end the widespread slave trade and its abuses.
Many see me as a pioneer of superior methods of
evangelization, working always to regenerate Africa
S O C I E T A S through Africans.
D O C T R I N
C H R I S T I A N Æ I was canonized by Pope John Paul II on October 5, 2003.
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