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June 8
Blessed Nicholas of Gesturi
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Brother Nicholas, known in the world as "John Medda" the son of John Messa Serra and of Priama Cogoni Zedda, was born at Gesturi in the province of Cagliari and Archdiocese of Oristano on 5 August 1882. On October 30, 1913, John Medda donned the Capuchin religious habit with the name of Nicholas. Br Nicholas was a man given to the silence noted in the Capuchin Constitutions Number 57. He spent 45 years as a man of religious life in humility, penance, charity, silence and constant prayer.
Brother Nicholas of Gesturi was declared Blessed on 3 October 1999.
God our Father, you made your holy martyrs Agathangelus and Cassian outstanding defenders of the Catholic Faith. Through their prayers grant that all nations may be united in the one true faith.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.