Giuseppe De Piro or Joseph De Piro, (2 November 1877 – 17 September 1933) was a Roman Catholic priest and missionary. He founded the Missionary Society of St Paul (MSSP) in June 1910 with a charism to form missionaries following the example of St Paul. A Servant of God, he is a candidate for beatification.
De Piro was born in Mdina, Malta on 2 November 1877.[1] He was a student at the University of Malta when he decided to switch from the study of law to preparing for the priesthood.[2]
Plaque commemorating Giuseppe De Piro in Mdina
De Piro was ordained to the priesthood in 1902[3] in Rome. Although he was involved in various ministries within the church, his main concern was the missions and work amongst the poor.[2] He continued to work the establishment of a society of priests and brothers committed to the spreading of the gospel. From accepting the first two members in 1910[4] he waited eleven years for the official approval by the local bishop and seventeen years before Brother Joseph Caruana became the first Paulist missionary, and was sent to Ethiopia,[5] where he remained until his death in 1975 at the age of 83.[6]
De Piro started off with a small community in Mdina, and died at the age of 55 in 1933 when the society was in its very initial stages.[6] Over the years, members joined and the mission started with the Maltese emigrants in Australia and also in the US and Canada.[7]
The first foundation in Australia in 1948 had been in Sydney three years earlier than the foundation in Melbourne. Both cities had a huge concentration of Maltese people, 23,000 in Melbourne alone.[6]
Mgr Joseph De Piro with some of the first MSSP members
The first group of three missionaries went to work in Peru in 1968. Other missions in Pakistan and the Philippines followed. The society's general administration is in Rome. They are established in Australia, mainly in Melbourne and Sydney, in Peru in Arequipa and Lima, in Pakistan in Lahore and, Manila and in Bataan in the Philippines. The latest mission to be opened is the one in Cuba, in 2017.[7][8]
External linksedit
Joseph De Piro information website
Referencesedit
^Sciberras, Tony (2016). Joseph De Piro: A love for the Church, his Country, the Poor and the Missions. Malta: Postulation: De Piro Cause of Canonisation. p. 24.
^ abBonavia MSSP, Norbert. "Joseph De Piro and May 8, the start of his call to priesthood", The Times of Malta, May 8, 2023
^ abcHart, Denis, "Homilies", Archdiocese of Melbourne, November 28, 2010
^ abRipard, Joanna, "CAM director appointed MSSP regional superior", Times of Malta, July 8, 2007
^. Archived from the original on 2016-02-23. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
January 01, 1970
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