Luigi Variara, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Luigi Variara

Italian missionary

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1875

Place of Birth: Viarigi, Piedmont, Italy

Date of Death: 01-Feb-1923

Profession: missionary

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Blessed Luigi Variara (15 January 1875 - 1 February 1923) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco.
He served for most of his life as part of the missions in Colombia where he worked with lepers and the children of outcast lepers.
He was ordained as a priest while serving there and made it his mission to provide both relief and consolation.He established his own religious congregation - the Daughters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary - with the intention of allowing lepers and the children of lepers the chance to enter the religious life. Pope John Paul II beatified Variara on 14 April 2002.