Michele Antonio Anfossi of San Luigi Gonzaga. — Discalced Carmelite, missionary, and bishop, born at San Remo on 31 Oct. 1799. He took the religious habit in Rome, where he professed on 27 Sept. 1816. Sent (1825) on mission to the kingdom of the Great Mogul (East Indies), he exercised his ministry for nine years in the stations of Surat, Baroda, Kairia (in Gujerat); then he was vicar of the church of Hope in Bombay (1835–1852) and vicar general of that bishop. Appointed in 1853 first Apostolic Vicar of Mangalore, he displayed extraordinary activity there, building churches and schools and communicating his zeal to the missionaries. He resigned the office in 1870 and retired to Quilon, where he died on 22 Dec. 1878.
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