ASPERTI, SAMUELE. - Jesuit spiritual director, b. at Gorlago (Bergamo) in 1818, d. at Mantua on June 20, 1896.

Ordained a priest at Bergamo, he was for some years a missionary in England, then attached to the curia of Bergamo.

Having entered (1857) the Society of Jesus, he served as spiritual director in the colleges of Padua, Bressanone, Cremona and in the seminary of Brescia. When the seminary for the missions of central Africa, erected at Verona by Msgr. Comboni in 1866, was transformed into a religious missionary Congregation (1885), Fr. A. had a preponderant part in the constitution and formation of the new institute: spiritual director and first master of novices from 1885 to 1892, he molded its spirit and wrote its rules, giving them the name of "Sons of the Sacred Heart." In 1892 he became its superior, but withdrew the following year because of illness.

Bibliography

BIBL.: L. I. Mazza, Il Padre Spirituale, ossia alcune memorie sulla vita del p. S. A., Verona 1914.

Edmondo Lamalle

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