Today we celebrate the Blessed Luigi Tezza, a Camillian, who went to heaven on 26 September 1923.
The first Provincial Superior of the Camillian Province of France (1871), he was the founder of the Congregation of the Daughters of St. Camillus  together with the Blessed Giuseppina Vannini (2 February 1892), remembered as the ‘saint of Lima’ because of her work of charity over a twenty-year period in Peru from 1900 until her death.
Father Luigi Tezza, whose remains lie in the generalate house of the Daughters of St. Camillus in Grottaferrata (Rome), was a very high example of the Camillian charism, doing wonders in care for the sick as the gospel and St. Camillus taught him, with special tenderness, and identifying Jesus Christ with the sick.
‘I was sick and you visited me…whenever you did this for one of the least important of these members of my family, you did it for me’ (Mt 25:36-40).
The history and the message of the Blessed Luigi Tezza are on the web site of the Holy See.
[To know more about this figure see the work ‘L’amore non conosce confini’ by the former Superior General of the Order of the Ministers of the Sick, Fr. Angelo Brusco.]