LITURGICAL CALENDAR FOR SEPTEMBER
LITURGICAL CALENDAR FOR SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 02, SEPTEMBER Blessed Guala Rogni of Bergamo At Pisogne, in Italy, Blessed Guala Rogni, friar and bishop of the Order of Preachers. Born in Bergamo, Italy about 1180, Guala Romagnoni was already a canon of that city when Saint Dominic received him into the Order in 1219. He accompanied the Holy Patriarch to Bologna and was later employed by him in establishing the Order in Brescia which he governed with prudence and zeal. At the death of St Dominic, Blessed Guala though not present saw in a vision the entrance of our Holy Father into heaven. In 1229 Pope Gregory IX appointed him Bishop of Brescia and Apostolic Legate to Lombardy. He labored to reconcile Emperor Frederick II and the Pope and to establish peace among the cities of northern Italy. As Bishop of Brescia his concern for the poor and unfortunate earned him the title, “Father of the poor and advocate of widows and orphans.”After many exhaus