Christian feast day: Blessed Bartolo Longo

Bartolo Longo

Italian lawyer and lay Dominican (1841–1926)

Bartolo Longo, TOSD was an Italian lawyer and former Satanic priest who returned to the Catholic faith and became a Dominican tertiary, dedicating his life to the Rosary and the Virgin Mary. He was eventually awarded a papal knighthood of the Equestrian Order of the Holy…