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Italian Roman Catholic priest
Blessed
Luigi Lenzini
Martyr
Born
(1881-05-28)28 May 1881 Fiumalbo, Modena, Kingdom of Italy
Died
21 July 1945(1945-07-21) (aged 64) Crocette di Parvullo nel Frignano, Modena, Kingdom of Italy
Venerated in
Roman Catholic Church
Beatified
28 May 2022, Piazza Grande, Modena by Cardinal Marcello Semeraro
Feast
21 July
Luigi Lenzini (28 May 1881 – 21 July 1945) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest that served as a pastor in the Archdiocese of Modena-Nonatola. Communist partisans killed him at his parish.[1][2]
Lenzini started his studies for the priesthood in 1897 before his sacerdotal ordination in 1904. He served in several parishes around the area before he moved to Rome for several months in the hopes of becoming a Redemptorist. This effort fell through due to the fact that he discerned his path was to remain as a diocesan priest rather than a religious one. He opposed fascism and communism during World War II but tried to befriend some of the partisans in his parish to get to know and understand them better. But this caused some to grow frustrated with him due to his repeated condemnations of their ideologies. This forced them to confront the priest before killing him in an abandoned field not far from his parish.[1][2]
The process for his beatification opened in Modena some decades after his death. Pope Francis confirmed in 2020 that he had died in hatred for the Christian faith that enabled for Lenzini to be beatified in Modena on 28 May 2022.[2]
^ abGiovanni Fantozzi (29 October 2020). "Triangolo rosso, don Lenzini sara il primo sacerdote beato" (in Italian). La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
^ abc"Beato Luigi Lenzini" (in Italian). Santi e Beati. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
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