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   Arise from earth's bonds   
      
    All that depresses you, all that you fear, is really powerless to   
   harm you. These things are but phantoms. So arise from earth's bonds,   
   from depression, distrust, fear, and all that hinders your new life.   
   Arise to beauty, joy, peace, and work inspired by love. Rise from   
   death to life. You do not even need to fear death. When all past sins   
   are forgiven you live and love and work with God. Let nothing hinder   
   your new life. Seek to know more and more of that new way of living.   
      
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   12 March – St Luigi Orione FDP   
      
    “The Advocate of the Poor and of Orphans” Priest, Preacher,   
   Confessor, Writer, Apostle of Charity, Apostle of Eucharistic   
   Adoration, Marian Devotee and Founder of Sons of Divine Providence   
   Congregation, the Congregation of the Little Missionary Sisters of   
   Charity, Blind Sisters, Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament,   
   Contemplative Sisters of Jesus Crucified.   
      
   Born as Aloysius Giovanni Orione on 23 June 1872 at Pontecurone,   
   Allessandria, Italy and died on 12 March 1940 at San Remo,   
   Imperia, Italy from heart disease.   
   Patronages – the Sons of Divine Providence, the Congregation of the   
   Little Missionary Sisters of Charity, Blind Sisters, Adorers of the   
   Blessed Sacrament,  Contemplative Sisters of Jesus Crucified, the   
   various related Lay apostolates, Tortona and Pontecurone. His body is   
   Incorrupt.   
      
   Luigi Orione was born in Pontecurone, diocese of Tortona, on 23 June   
   1872. At 13 years of age he entered the Franciscan Friary of Voghera   
   (Pavia) but he left after one year owing to poor health. From 1886 to   
   1889 he was a pupil of Saint John Bosco at the Valdocco Oratory (Youth   
   Centre) in Turin.   
      
   On 16 October 1889, he joined the diocesan seminary of Tortona. As a   
   young seminarian he devoted himself to the care of others by becoming   
   a member of both the San Marziano Society for Mutual Help and the   
   Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. On 3 July 1892 he opened the first   
   Oratory in Tortona to provide for the Christian training of boys. The   
   following year, on 15 October 1893, Luigi Orione, then a seminarian of   
   21, started a boarding school for poor boys, in the Saint Bernardine   
   estate.   
      
   On 13 April 1895, Luigi Orione was ordained priest and, on that   
   occasion, the Bishop gave the clerical habit to six pupils of the   
   boarding school. Within a brief span of time, Don Orione opened new   
   houses at Mornico Losana (Pavia), Noto – in Sicily, Sanremo and Rome.   
      
   Around the young Founder, there grew up seminarians and priests who   
   made up the first core group of the Little Work of Divine Providence.   
   In 1899, he founded the branch of the Hermits of Divine Providence.   
   The Bishop of Tortona, Mgr Igino Bandi, by a Decree of 21 March 1903,   
   issued the canonical approval of the Sons of Divine Providence   
   (priests, lay brothers and hermits) – the male congregation of the   
   Little Work of Divine Providence. It aims to “co-operate to bring the   
   little ones, the poor and the people to the Church and to the Pope, by   
   means of the works of charity” and professes a fourth vow of special   
   “faithfulness to the Pope”. In the first Constitutions of 1904, among   
   the aims of the new Congregation, there appears that of working to   
   “achieve the union of the separated Churches”.   
      
   Inspired by a profound love for the Church and for the salvation of   
   Souls, he was actively interested in the new problems of his time,   
   such as the freedom and unity of the Church, the Roman question,   
   modernism, socialism and the Christian evangelisation of industrial   
   workers.   
      
   He rushed to assist the victims of the earthquakes of Reggio and   
   Messina (1908) and the Marsica region (1915). By appointment of Saint   
   Pius X, he was made Vicar General of the diocese of Messina for three   
   years.   
      
   On 29 June 1915, 20 years after the foundation of the Sons of Divine   
   Providence, he added to the “single tree of many branches” the   
   Congregation of the Little Missionary Sisters of Charity who are   
   inspired by the same founding charism. Alongside them, he placed the   
   Blind Sisters, Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament. Later, the   
   Contemplative Sisters of Jesus Crucified were also founded.   
      
   For lay people he set up the associations of the “Ladies of Divine   
   Providence”, the “Former Pupils”, and the “Friends”. More recently,   
   the Don Orione Secular Institute and the Don Orione Lay People’s   
   Movement have come into being.   
      
   Following the First World War (1914-1918), the number of schools,   
   boarding houses, agricultural schools, charitable and welfare works   
   increased. Among his most enterprising and original works, he set up   
   the “Little Cottolengos”, for the care of the suffering and abandoned,   
   which were usually built in the outskirts of large cities to act as   
   “new pulpits” from which to speak of Christ and of the Church – “true   
   beacons of faith and of civilisation”.   
      
   Don Orione’s missionary zeal, which had already manifested itself in   
   1913 when he sent his first religious to Brazil, expanded subsequently   
   to Argentina and Uruguay (1921), Palestine (1921), Poland (1923),   
   Rhodes (1925), the USA (1934), England (1935), Albania (1936). From   
   1921-1922 and from 1934-1937, he himself made two missionary journeys   
   to Latin America – to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, going as far as   
   Chile.   
      
   He enjoyed the personal respect of the Popes and the Holy See’s   
   Authorities, who entrusted him with confidential tasks of sorting out   
   problems and healing wounds both inside the Church as well as in the   
   relations with society. He was a preacher, a confessor and a tireless   
   organiser of pilgrimages, missions, processions, live cribs and other   
   popular manifestations and celebrations of the faith. He loved Our   
   Lady deeply and fostered devotion to her by every means possible and,   
   through the manual labour of his seminarians, built the shrines of Our   
   Lady of Safe Keeping in Tortona and Our Lady of Caravaggio at Fumo. In   
   the winter of 1940, with the intention of easing the heart and lung   
   complaints that were troubling him, he went to the Sanremo house, even   
   though, as he said, “it is not among the palm trees that I would like   
   to die,but among the poor who are Jesus Christ”. Only three days   
   later, on 12 March 1940, surrounded by the love of his confreres, Don   
   Orione died, while sighing “Jesus, Jesus! I am going”.   
      
   His body was found to be intact at its first exhumation in 1965. It   
   has been exposed to the veneration of the faithful in the shrine of   
   Our Lady of Safe Keeping in Tortona ever since 26 October 1980 – the   
      
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