MARCHISIO, CLEMENTE. - Priest, founder of the Daughters of St. Joseph, b. at Racconigi (Turin) on 1 March 1833, d. at Rivalba Torinese on 16 Dec. 1903.

Ordained a priest in 1856 and having spent two years under the wise teaching of St. G. Cafasso, he was assistant parish priest at Canbasso and at Vigone, then from 1860 provost at Rivalba Torinese, where for 43 years he labored indefatigably for his flock. To prevent young girls from going to Turin to enter domestic service, from where they returned less good, in 1871 he founded a weaving workshop for them; he then chose from among the best of them some who would direct it; hence the new Institute of the Daughters of St. Joseph (1877). But having observed, while preaching in various parishes, the poverty and unseemliness of the sacred vestments and the fact that the matter of the Sacrifice was adulterated to the point of rendering it null, he gave the Institute another task, namely to prepare the wine for Mass, the candles, the linens and the vestments necessary for worship. The ideal so pleased people that the Institute soon spread through very many dioceses. The cause of beatification of M. was introduced in 1944.

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BIBL.: D. Franchetti, Il santo prevosto di Rivalba Torinese, d. C. M., Turin 1933; AAS, 36 (1944), pp. 267-69.

Celestino Testore

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Marchisio, Clemente

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