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    12 - Comboni dies in Khartoum at the age of 50

    On 10 October Daniel Comboni, the apostle of Africa, died in Khartoum at the age of fifty. A small group of missionary priests and Sisters were with him in his gods hours, while he was feebly repeating ‘My Jesus have mercy'. Before entering his agony Comboni had asked a young präst, Johannes Dichtl, to promise that he would remain faithful to the uppdrag. Meanwhile Fr. Arthur Bouchard, holding his hand, comforted and encouraged him during the gods moments of his life: ‘Monsignor, the supreme moment has come!’ At 10 p.m.
    the news spread throughout Khartoum: ‘The Bishop is dead’.
    On this poster we can see a typical African desert and, beneath the piercing glance of Daniel Comboni, a drawing made at that time of the mission cemetery in Khartoum where Comboni was buried. A few months later the tomb was desecrated and destroyed. Today some of Comboni’s remains have been taken to the Mother House of the Comboni Missionaries in Verona and lai

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    Daniel Comboni: the son of poor gardeners who became the first Catholic Bishop of Central Africa, and one of the great missionaries in the Church's history.

    It is a fact. When God decides to take a hand and select a generous and open-hearted individual, things happen: great, new things.

      

    An “only child” - with holy parents 

    Daniel Comboni is born at Limone sul Garda (Brescia - Italy) on 15th, March , into a family of cultivators employed by one of the rich local proprietors. Luigi and Domenica, the parents, are very attached to Daniel: he is the fourth of eight children, but the only survivor: all the others die young, six of them in their infancy. So they form a very close unit, rich in faith and human values, but poor in material things. It is this poverty that forces Daniel to go away to school in Verona, in the Institute founded by Father Nicola Mazza. During the years spent in Verona,

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    Daniele Comboni

    Italian Catholic bishop (–)

    Daniele Comboni, MCCJ (15 March – 10 October )[1] was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as Vicar Apostolic of Central Africa from until his death in He worked in the missions in Africa and was the founder of both the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus and the Comboni Missionary Sisters.

    Comboni studied under Nicola Mazza in Verona where he became a multi-linguist and in vowed to join the missions in the African continent although this did not occur until when he travelled to Sudan. He continued to travel back and forth from his assignment to his native land in order to found his congregations and attend to other matters, and returned in for the First Vatican Council in Rome until its premature closing due to conflict.

    Comboni attempted to draw attention across Europe to the plight of the people living in poverty-stricken areas in the African continent and from until mid travelled across Europe to places suc

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