June 17th - ​St. Joseph Cafasso By: Alisha Justin

​St. Joseph Cafasso was born in 1811 on January 15th. He was born as the third of four kids. Cafasso was born with a deformed spine which made him shorter than other kids of his age. This also affected him to have a frail constitution. He had always wanted to become a priest so he made that dream come true and he became a priest. St. Joseph Cafasso died on June 23,1860. At that point he was 49 years old. On April 9, 1948 he was declared patron for all Italian prisoners 

INTERCESSORY PRAYER 

Please intercede for me and mine. Help us to leave our prisons--mine of impatience as I wait for my loved one to return to the practice of the Catholic faith, and the prison of ignorance and unknowing that keeps us from the arms of Jesus and His Church.