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Bartolo Longo

We celebrate the feast of Blessed Bartolo Longo on Oct 5, the same day as St. Faustyna…my friends share many things in common…Therefore we will reflect on Bartolo Longo today since St John Paul II called him the Apostle of the Rosary.

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Bl. Bartolo Longo was born on Italy's Adriatic coast in 1841. At the age of ten his mother died and Bartolo began to lose his way. During his time in Law School at the University of Naples he completely gave up his faith.

In his confusion and emptiness, without God to turn to, he began to visit some of Naples’ infamous mediums. That was his introduction into the occult. Soon, his thirst for the supernatural led him into outright Satanism, where after a period of intense study and rigorous fasting, he was consecrated a satanic priest and promised his soul to a demon. For the next year, he began to preside over satanic services and to preach more boldly against God and the Church — treating them as the real evils.

Under the demonic influence the physical and psychological health of Bartolo began to decline rapidly.

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Blessed Bartolo Longo: A saint for the depressed and anxious

According to tradition, the Blessed Mother revealed the Rosary to St. Dominic as the threats of error and falsehood propagated by the Albigensian heresy grew. That and several other episodes in the history of the Church have illustrated that the Rosary is most definitely a spiritual weapon to be used to defeat what is false and evil in the world.

Blessed Bartolo Longo found that out firsthand in his late 20s when introduced to the Rosary. Having grown up Catholic, Longo grew away from the Faith in his young adult years and gave into the pressures of the culture.

Back then, the Church became the target of various attacks because the pope maintained a certain portion of the territory that is now Italy. Although the pope eventually lost it — removing any political power from the papacy after nearly a millennium — Italy saw his attempts to maintain control as something akin to an enemy of the state.

Unification was en vogue as Italy was being formed from various disparate territories. As a young law student, Longo join

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Bartolo Longo

Italian lawyer and lay Dominican, beatified by the Catholic Church

Blessed Bartolo Longo TOSD, KGCHS
Photograph of Blessed Bartolo Longo
Born	(1841-02-10)February 10, 1841 Latiano, near Brindisi, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Died	October 5, 1926(1926-10-05) (aged 85) Pompei, Naples, Campania, Kingdom of Italy
Venerated in	Catholic Church
Beatified	26 October 1980, Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
Major shrine	Basilica of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary of Pompei, Pompei, Naples, Italy
Feast	October 5
Attributes	Knight habit^[1] Rosary

Bartolo Longo (February 10, 1841 – October 5, 1926) was an Italianlawyer who has been beatified by the Catholic Church. He presented himself as a former "Satanic priest" who returned to the Catholic faith and became a Dominican tertiary, dedicating his life to the rosary and the Virgin Mary. He was eventually awarded a papal knighthood of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.^[1]

Early years

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