Antique Relic Saint Giuseppe Moscati (Italian Doctor)
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This is a old metal pendant, inside arelic of Saint GiuseppeMoscati. Relic in placeand wax seal and threads intact.Inside the relic is a S placed over theBlessed, so its probably resealed around 1987.Comesfrom a closed convent in Belgium.Very nice condition. Diameter 1, 3 inch.Shipping and handling US$ 22.00 by insured priority mail and tracking number.
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SaintGiuseppe Moscati (25 July 1880 – 12April 1927) was an Italian doctor, scientific researcher, and universityprofessor noted both for his pioneering work in biochemistry and for his pietyMoscatiwas the seventh of nine children born to a noble Beneventene family which camefrom the village of Santa Lucia in Serino, near Avellino. His father, Francesco, was well known as a lawyer and magistrate in the area; his mother, Rosa De Luca dei Marchesi di Roseto, was of noble birth.
Moscati was born in Benevento in 1880; to commemorate histies to the area, a marble statue has since been erected in the chapel of theHoly Sacrament in Benevento's cathedral. He was baptized six days after hisbirth, and took his first Communion at eight years old. Moscati moved with hisfamily to Naples in 1884, and would spend much of the rest of his life in thecity. During this time his family would spend its summers in Avellino, andGiuseppe would see his father serve at the altar in the local chapel of the PoorClares whenever they attended Mass.
At the age of ten, he was confirmed into the Church, atwhich time his family met Bartolo Longo and spent some time in the household ofCaterina Volpicelli. The latter was to become among his most importantspiritual guides later in life.
Studies
After finishing his elementary schooling in 1889, Moscatientered into the Liceo Vittorio Emanuele II in Naples, where among his professorswas vulcanologist Giuseppe Mercalli. In 1892 his brother, Alberto, receivedincurable head trauma in a fall from a horse during his military service.Observing the care which Alberto received at home inspired in Giuseppe an interestin medicine, which he pursued after graduating from the Liceo in 1897; it wasin the same year that his father died. Moscati received his doctorate from theFaculty of Medicine at the University of Naples in 1903. The subject of histhesis was hepatic urogenesis.
Medical career
Immediately upon receiving his degree, Moscati joined thestaff of the Ospedale degli Incurabili, [4]eventually becoming an administrator. During this time he continued to study, conducting medical research when not performing his duties at the hospital.Already recognized for his commitment to his duties, he won further recognitionfor his actions in the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 8 April1906. One of the hospitals for which Moscati was responsible, at Torre delGreco, was located a few miles from the volcano's crater. Many of its patientswere elderly, and many were paralytics as well. Moscati oversaw the evacuationof the building, getting them all out just before the roof collapsed due to theash. He sent a letter to the general director of the Neapolitan hospitalservice, insisting on thanking those who had helped in the evacuation, yet notmentioning his own name.
When cholera broke out in Naples in 1911, Moscati wascharged by the civic government with performing public health inspections, andwith researching both the origins of the disease and the best ways to eradicateit. This he did quickly, presenting his suggestions to city officials. To hissatisfaction, most of these ideas were put into practice by the time of hisdeath. Also in 1911, Moscati became a member of the Royal Academy of SurgicalMedicine, and received his doctorate in physiological chemistry.
Moscati's bedroom, seenin 2015; the armchair is that in which he died
Besides his work as a researcher and as a doctor, Moscatiwas responsible for overseeing the directions of the local Institute ofAnatomical Pathology. In the institute's autopsy room, he placed a crucifixinscribed with Chapter 13, verse 14 of the Book of Hosea, Ero mors tua, o mors (O death, I willbe thy death). The doctor's mother died of diabetes in 1914; as a consequence, Moscati became one of the first Neapolitan doctors to experiment with insulin in histreatment of the disease.
During World War I, Moscati tried to enroll in the armedforces, but was rejected; military authorities felt that he could better servethe country by treating the wounded. His hospital was taken over by themilitary, and he himself visited close to 3, 000 soldiers. In 1919, he was madedirector of one of the local men's schools; he also continued to teach. In 1922Moscati was given a libera docenzain clinical medicine, which allowed him to teach at institutes of highereducation.
Death
St Giuseppe Moscati'sgrave, in Gesù Nuovo church.
Moscati died in the afternoon of 12 April 1927. He hadattended Mass that morning, receiving Communion as he always did, and spent theremainder of the morning at the hospital. Upon returning home he busied himselfwith patients until around three, after which, feeling tired, he sat down in anarmchair in his office; soon after this, he died.
Moscati's body was initially buried in the cemetery of PoggioReale, but three years later was exhumed and reinterred in the church of GesùNuovo. Today a marble stone marks his grave.
Faith
Plaque in memory ofGiuseppe Moscati affixed to the building in which he lived in Naples.
Moscati remained true to his faith his entire life, taking a vow of chastity and practicing charity in his daily work. He viewedhis practice of medical science as a way of alleviating suffering, not as a wayof making profits, and would retire regularly for prayer. He also attended Massdaily, and would sometimes use a patient's faith, as well as the sacraments, inhis treatments.[6] Moscati also refused to charge the poor for theirtreatment, and was known to sometimes send a patient home with a prescriptionand a 50-lira note in an envelope.It was claimed even before his death thatMoscati was a miracle-worker; some said that he could accurately diagnose and prescribefor any patient merely by hearing a list of his symptoms, and that he wasresponsible for impossible cures. Reports of his good works continued wellafter his death, with further reports that he interceded in impossible cases.Consequently, he was beatified by Pope Paul VI on behalf of the Roman CatholicChurch on 16 November 1975. Moscati was canonized on 25 October 1987, by PopeJohn Paul II. His canonization miracle involved the case of a young ironworkerdying of leukemia. The young man's mother dreamed of a doctor wearing a whitecoat, whom she identified as Moscati when shown a photograph. Not long afterthis, her son went into remission and returned to work
Moscati was the first modern doctor to be canonized; his feastday is 16 November.
