On April 12, on the eve of Palm Sunday, the Church honors San Giuseppe MoscatiItalian lay physician, from Naples. Also to Julius I, Pope, custodian of the faith of the Council of Nicaea and defender of St. Athanasius. And to the Mexican martyr Saint David Uribe, falsely accused and then shot in Mexico in 1927. To the young Discalced Carmelite saint Teresa of Jesus of the Andes (1900-1920), the first Chilean saint, is celebrated on July 13.
Joseph Moscati was a lay physician who, in Naples at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, cared for all the sick, especially the poorest. He died of a heart attack in 1927 and was canonized by St. John Paul II 60 years later. He cared for children and the elderly without resources, free of charge. In addition, two episodes are mentioned in a special way in his life.
The first is his intense work in the Vesuvius eruption of 1906. He rushed to the Torre del Greco, where the Hospital of the Incurabili had a headquarters. And just after bringing the last patient to safety, the structure collapsed. In 1911 a cholera epidemic spread in Naples. Giuseppe stood by the sick without fear of contagion. He was also at the forefront of the research that helped to contain the disease.
St. Julius I, defender of the faith
The Roman Martyrology describes in this way to Pope Julius I: "In Rome, in the cemetery of Calepodius, in the third milestone of the via Aurelia, burial of Pope St. Julius I, who, against the attacks of the Arians, courageously guarded the faith of the Council of Nicaea, defended St. Athanasius, persecuted and exiled, and gathered the Council of Sardica. († 352)".
The Vatican agency calls it "champion of Roman orthodoxy and defender of the Trinitarian doctrine". "During his pontificate, St. Julius I fought against the Arians, seeking several times a rapprochement with them, first through the Council of Rome and then Sardica, but without success. He died in 352."
Saint David Uribe, martyred priest
St. David Uribe was born in Mexico in 1888. He entered the seminary in Chilapa and was ordained a priest in 1913. He was secretary to the bishop of Tabasco and later dedicated himself to the parish ministry in the midst of the persecution unleashed against the Church. He went underground, but was arrested and falsely accused. He was offered his freedom and offered to become a bishop of the official schismatic church, which he did not accept. rejected with categoricality. He was shot in 1927 in Cuernavaca.
