Chronology of the Life of James Alberione

1884, 4 April - Birth of Giacomo Alberione in San Lorenzo di Fossano (Cuneo).

1890-1891 - Attends first elementary in Cherasco.

1896, 25 October - Enters the Seminary in Bra.

1900, April - Asked to leave the Seminary in Bra.

1900, October - Enters the Seminary in Alba.

1900, 31 December - 1 January 1901 - While participating at the nightly adoration, he feels called to do something for the Lord and the people of the new century.

1907, 29 June - Ordained priest in Alba.

1908 - For a few months he fulfills parish duties in Narzole.

1908, 1 October - Reenters the Seminary and is appointed Spiritual Director to the youth and the altar servers.

1913, September - Assumes the direction of the weekly Gazzetta d'Alba.

1914, 20 August - Founding of the Society of St. Paul.

1915, 15 June - Founding of the Daughters of St. Paul.

1921, 5 October - Constitutions, with the taking of vows (privately) of some of members of the Society of St. Paul.

1921, 23 November - Alberione asks Bishop Giuseppe Francesco Re, then bishop of Alba, to erect the Society of Saint Paul as a diocesan congregation.

1924, 10 February - Founding of the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master.

1936, August - Beginning, in Rome, of the Sisters of Jesus the Good Shepherd.

1938, 7 October - At Genzano (Rome) official birth of the Sisters of Jesus the Good Shepherd.

1947, 3 April - The Pious Disciples of the Divine Master becomes a congregation of Canonical Right.

1957, 4 April - Beginning of the first General Chapter, during which Fr. Alberione is confirmed as Superior General.

1959, 8 September - At Castelgandolfo (Rome), birth of the Sisters of Mary, Queen of Apostles.

1960, 8 April - The Holy Congregation for Religious gives approval for the "Associazione Paolina" made of three associated institutes: Institute of Jesus the Priest, Institute of St. Gabriel the Archangel and the Institute of Mary Most Holy of the Annunciation.

1965, 5 August - The Second General Chapter of the Society of St. Paul proclaims Fr. Alberione Superior General Emeritus, and elects Fr. Luigi Damaso Zanoni as the new Superior General of the Society.

1971, 26 November - At 18:26, Fr. Alberione dies in Rome, in the Generalate House, after receiving the visit of Paul VI.

1981, 4 May - The Nihil Obstat is granted to the pursuit of his beatification.

1996, 25 June - The Decree of Venerability is signed, establishing the heroism of his virtues.

(Excerpted from Society of St. Paul, Italy.)

Abundantes Divitiae-Alberione's personal testimony of the early years of foundation.

Those who influenced Alberione's thought: Canon Chiesa, Henry Swoboda, Cornelius Krieg Hergenrother, Ignatius of Loyola, Peter Julian Eymard, Pius X, Leo XIII.

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