Biography of saint joseph marello oblates of mary

Giuseppe Marello Joseph Marello was born in Turin on December 26, He spent his childhood in S. Martino Alfieri near Asti.

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His special devotion to the Virgin Mary determined his choice of vocation and his fidelity to it. He entered the seminary of Asti, where he inspired his companions with his goodness and holiness. Ordained a priest on September 19,, Joseph Marello lived his priestly life intensely: he served the diocese of Asti first as secretary to the Bishop and then as Chancellor, directing the Curia's activities; he devoted himself to the ministry of confession, spiritual direction and catechesis; he took seriously the moral and religious education of youth and helped in the pastoral ministry; he showed himself sensible to the elderly, taking over a home for the aged which did not have the means to help those living in it; he engaged the laity through the Catholic initiatives being set up to support the Pope's person and actions at a difficult time for the Church.

At the same time he was contemplating the idea of dedicating himself totally to Lord in a Carthusian monastery. But His Bishop, Monsignor Savio, dissuaded him saying that the Lord was asking something different from him. He wanted to channel Marello's aspiration of total dedication to the Lord by starting a new Religious Family, which would revive in Asti the presence of Men religious, a presence which had been suffocated by the revolutionary laws of the time.

Marello founded the Congregation of the Oblates of St. Joseph on the 14th of March , for which he proposed St.