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Alessandro Barnabò

As Prefect, Barnabò was responsible for arranging a meeting between Pope Pius IX and Isaac Hecker.

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In 1873, Mary MacKillop travelled to Rome and met, among others, Barnabò who encouraged her "warmly" and took great interest in her travels.

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At the age of 10, he was sent by the French administration in Italy to the Prytanée National Militaire in La Flèche, but he returned to Italy in 1814 to study for the priesthood.

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Hecker had been expelled from his Redemptorist order but Barnabò recognised his valuable missionary work and helped him appeal to the Pope who overturned the expulsion.

CICM Missionaries

On seeking ecclesiastical permission, however, they were commissioned by Cardinal Alessandro Barnabò, Prefect of the Propaganda Fide, to begin their work by founding a seminary in Belgium to supply priests for the beginning mission, and laid the foundations of the Scheutveld College, 28 April 1863, in the Field of Scheut, a short distance from Brussels, so the C.I.C.M. missionaries were also known as Scheutists or Scheut missionaries.

Laurence Sheil

Prompted by these events, a group of Catholic laymen wrote to Cardinal Alessandro Barnabò, Prefect of the Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith in Rome.

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