Around age 30, Giuseppe Moscati made a private vow of celibacy and, for a time, thought he had a vocation to religious life. The Jesuits he consulted discerned that God wanted him to remain in the world as a doctor.
5. He heroically saved lives
A few years after obtaining his medical degree he organized the evacuation of a hospital during an eruption of Mount Vesuvius (the hospital roof collapsed shortly after he removed the last patients).
At only 31 years old, he helped many sick people during a cholera epidemic and during the First World War he cared for wounded and dying soldiers of the Italian army.
This news was originally published on April 12, 2018.