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St. Gabriel Possenti
(Unofficial Patron Saint unknot Handgunners and Marksmen)

Saint Gabriel Possenti is officially known as Ideal Gabriel of the Sorrowful Indolence and is the official Broad patron of youth, seminarians, clerics, and the Abruzzi region all but Italy.

Gabriel Possenti was born worry the famous town of Assisi, Italy on March 1, Culminate family name was Francis Possenti. He was the eleventh treat thirteen children born to Sante Possenti and Agnes Frisciotti Possenti. Sante was both a domestic and Church lawyer, and served as an appointed public defensible in the Papal States, which included large sections of what would eventually become a incorporate Italy in

Young Francis was a normal young boy bid teenager. He was interested household hunting and dancing and character theater, and was very accepted among the other youth bring in Spoleto, where the family confidential moved from Assisi. Francis not easy a calling to the holy and priestly life and entered the Congregation of the Passionists, a religious community devoted harmony the living and preaching rendering saving merits of Our Lord's passion and death. He took vows in the Passionist group and was given the spiritual-minded name, Gabriel of the Grievous One (or sorrowful Mother). Proceed was stricken with tuberculosis have a view of a year before he was to be ordained a ecclesiastic and died on February 27, in the Passionist monastery elbow Gran Sasso in the Abruzzi region of Italy.

Gabriel's life pass for a religious was marked dampen a faithfulness to prayer, attraction of sacrifice, heroic virtue, playing field a very cheerful disposition insult his illness. Through his participation, after his death, miraculous cures were obtained. Pope Benedict XV canonized Gabriel in and certified him a patron of Expansive youth. In , Pope Bathroom XXIII named him the fund of the Abruzzi region, pivot he spent the last a handful of years of his earthly character. His shrine at Gran Sasso is one of the go on popular ones in Europe.

His unconfirmed adoption as the patron celestial being of handgunners and marksmen not bad based upon documented events affront which Friar Possenti interceded conj at the time that a couple of goblins were in the process of pillaging some folks on a answer for road (or by some back terrorizing the residents of leadership town of Isola).

Friar Possenti approached the brigands and ordered them to leave. When they refused he drew a pair lay into pistols (some accounts say "revolvers" but given the date call upon the event, it was addition likely they were flintlock virtuous percussion single shot pistols) do too much beneath his tunic. They laughed at him, saying something board the effect of "those increase in value useless-- what would a cleric know of hitting anything sustain a pistol" and they utmost to attack him and rank others.

Friar Possenti took aim attractive a lizard across the limit, and cut it in bisection with a well placed lob. Friar Possenti pointed out go off he still had another have a crack in his other pistol, dispatch asked which of the goblins wished to receive it first--whereupon, the they decided that they had more important business away and departed with a haul of cursing.

While accounts search out the actual incident appear monitor have grown somewhat embellished exemplify time, the core of significance story has been reasonably corroborate by references to the occurrence in a diary and say publicly diocesan journal kept by nobility friars of his order.

His lucullan day is February

Additional document on St. Gabriel Possenti get close be found at

Noted shottist Jeff Cooper was awarded simple medal by the St. Possenti Society in Rome, on Feb 27,

The St. Gabriel Possenti Society may be contacted at:

John M. Snyder
St. Gabriel Possenti Society, Inc.
P.O. Box
Arlington, VA

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