Saint of the Day
Blessed Claudio Granzotto
Born in Northern Italy in 1900. He was drafted into the army during the first world war serving three years in total. After the war he went on to study art and went to Venice’s Academy of Fine Arts. His art was his way of being closer to God as well as trying too spread the love of God. He also worked with the poor to ease they hardship something he could relate to as he grew up working the fields as a child. He entered the Order of Friars Minor in 1933. He sadly got a brain tumor and died in 1947. He was beatified in 1994.
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