Priest. Born Rome. Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, the Pallottine Fathers. Canonized in 1963. He suggested that St Peter’s should be built but we aren’t aware that he ever came to England.
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Saint Vincent Pallotti
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