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Leonardo Murialdo (26 October 1828 – 30 March 1900) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the co-founder of the Congregation of Saint Joseph - also known as the Murialdines (which he founded alongside Eugenio Reffo).
Leonard (Leonardo) Murialdo was born in Turin on 26 October 1828. His father, a wealthy stockbroker, died in 1833. His mother, a very religious woman, sent her small child to “Nadino” a boarding school in Savona run by the Scolopian Fathers.
Saint Leonard Murialdo - Salesian Sisters of Saint John Bosco. Priest (May 3, 1970) He was a spiritual person and a man of prayer, a contemplative in action like Don Bosco. Leonard Murialdo was born in Turin in 1828, the eighth child of a well-to-do family.
Mar 30, 2014 · St. Leonard Murialdo was born in Turin (Italy) on 26 October, 1828 son of Leonard and Theresa Rho. Before him six sisters were born: Olympia, Aurelia, Dionisia, Emily, Clementine (who died at a very tender age), Domitilla and his brother Ernest.
Leonard Murialdo was one of the promoters of the first Catholic Popular Libraries and of the Union of Catholic Workers, of which he would be an ecclesiastical assistant for many years. In 1873, with the support of some co-workers, he founded the Congregation of St. Joseph (Giuseppini del Murialdo).
MURIALDO, LEONARDO, BL. Founder of the Congregation of St. Joseph (Turin);b. Turin, Italy, Oct. 26, 1828; d. Turin, March 30, 1900. Murialdo studied theology in the university of Turin, where he obtained a doctorate (1850) and was ordained (1851).
Ordained priest, and after assiduous study of the word of God and of the disciplines of theology, he dedicated himself to pastoral activity, teaching catechism in prisons for young offenders, preaching to the people, and spreading the faith through the printed word.
