Giuseppe Lazzati
Giuseppe Lazzati (22 June 1909 – 18 May 1986) was an
Italian Roman Catholic rector of the
Sacred Heart college in Milan and a former parliamentarian. He was also the founder of the Secular Institute of Christ the King. Lazzati served as a professor and for a time served as a politician at the close of the
Second World War despite initial hesitance in doing so. He later resigned to further dedicate himself to his lecturing while instituting the Secular Institute of Christ the King to bring together men who wished to consecrate themselves to
God though not as religious. He was a collaborator of several well-known figures in Italian politics such as
Giorgio La Pira and
Aldo Moro while he maintained close relationships with
Pope Paul VI and
Pope John Paul II.
The cause for Lazzati's
beatification opened after his death and in 2013
Pope Francis named him as
Venerable after recognizing that Lazzati had lived a life of
heroic virtue.
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