VERJUS, ENRICO BATTISTA STANISLAO. - Bishop, missionary, b. at Oleggio (diocese of Novara) on 26 March 1860, d. there on 13 Nov. 1892.

Having moved early with his family to Savoy, he entered in 1872 the Apostolic School of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart and five years later, in 1877, their Congregation. Ordained a priest in 1883, as early as 1884 he set out for the apostolic vicariate of New Guinea. This mission field was at the beginnings of its evangelization, and the fierce and cannibalistic savages made the missionary's work very difficult and dangerous. Nevertheless V. knew how to win the hearts of many and transform them into true Christians. In 1889 he was elected and consecrated apostolic vicar of New Britain; but even before taking possession of it, he was appointed coadjutor of his own apostolic vicar of New Guinea. Having then returned to Europe for the ad limina visit and to procure missionaries, he was struck at Oleggio, where he had gone to restore his strength in his native air, by an inexorable illness which after ten days carried him to the grave. His cause of beatification was introduced on 11 March 1949.

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BIBL.: AAS, 41 (1949), pp. 170-72; C. Gallina, L'apostolo della Nuova Guinea, 2nd ed., Rome 1943.

Celestino Testore

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