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Saint — Bl. Alberto Marvelli

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Bl. Alberto Marvelli
March 21, 1918 AD, Ferrara, Kingdom of Italy — October 5, 1946 AD, Rimini, Italy — killed in a bicycle accident hit by a truck
Italian Catholic Action lay-hero; young Rimini martyr of Christian charity
Church of San Girolamo, Rimini, Italy — shrine, Italy
Feast
October 5
Canonized
Beatified September 5, 2004 by Pope St. John Paul II
Life

Alberto Marvelli was born on March 21, 1918 at Ferrara. In 1934, at the age of 16, Alberto undertook the systematic Catholic Action (Azione Cattolica) lay-Catholic engagement.

During the Nazi occupation of Rimini (1943–1944), Alberto undertook the ministry to the Jewish refugees, the Nazi persecuted, and the Rimini civilian bombing victims — personally rescuing the persecuted from Nazi deportation trains.

Following the 1944 Allied liberation of Rimini, Alberto served as post-war Catholic-Christian-Democrat city councillor at Rimini (1946) — undertaking the systematic post-war reconstruction of Rimini and the Rimini Catholic revival.

On October 5, 1946, at the age of 28, Alberto was struck by a truck on his bicycle en route to catechism class — producing the immediate death.

Beatified September 5, 2004 by Pope St. John Paul II — the papal recognition of the young Catholic Action lay-hero.

Miracles & Phenomena

  • The post-war young Catholic lay-hero

    Bl. Alberto Marvelli's systematic Catholic Action engagement — the Nazi-occupation rescue of Jewish refugees, post-war Rimini reconstruction ministry — established him as the 20th-century young Catholic lay-Catholic Action hero.

Relics
  • Body
    Relics of Bl. Alberto Marvelli
    Church of San Girolamo, Rimini, Italy

    His relics rest at the Church of San Girolamo at Rimini.

Iconography
  • Marvelli rescuing Jews from deportation trains

    The young Italian Catholic Action lay-hero rescuing Jewish refugees from Nazi deportation trains at Rimini in 1943–1944 — the iconography of Catholic 20th-century Catholic Action lay-hero tradition.

Patronages
Catholic Action (Azione Cattolica)Catholic young lay-Catholic traditionCatholic post-war Italian Catholic revival traditionRimini and the Emilia-Romagna Catholic tradition
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