Moscati Giuseppe: biography, missionary activity. Healer St. Luke Krymsky is our contemporary, canonized. Italian doctor canonized film
Italian drama "Giuseppe Moscati: Healing Love" (Giuseppe Moscati) 2007 release from the director Giacomo Campiotti. The plot of the film is based on the real biography of an Italian doctor. Giuseppe Moscati, who lived at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and was later named a saint for his extraordinary love for people and dedication.
Starring Beppe Fiorello, Ettore Bassi, Kasia Smutniak and others.
Contents of the film Giuseppe Moscati: Healing Love / Giuseppe Moscati
Two student friends, Giuseppe and Giorgio, are finishing their studies at the medical academy. Now, to become real doctors, they must pass an examination before the strict eyes of other doctors. Young Giuseppe easily copes with this, helping his friend in the meantime. From now on, young people will practice in one of the Neapolitan hospitals, where strict morals reign and the best opportunity for developing medical skills is presented.
Giuseppe quickly becomes the favorite of his patients, as he is ready to pay maximum attention to each of them, spending days and nights in the hospital. And when an earthquake occurs in the city, he is the first to rush to the aid of a nearby hospital and takes out more than a dozen people doomed to death.
Almost 50 years after his death, Giuseppe Moscati was canonized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
Cast and crew of the film Giuseppe Moscati: Healing Love / Giuseppe Moscati
- Director: Giacomo Campiotti.
- Writers: Giacomo Campiotti, Fabio Campos, Gloria Malatesta and others.
- Cinematographer: Gino Zgreva.
- Composers: Lino Canavacciuolo, Michele Fedrigotti.
- Producer: Sergio Gussiani.
- Actors: Beppe Fiorello, Ettore Bassi, Kasia Smutniak, Antonella Stefanucci, Paolo Casella, Marco Gambino, Giorgio Colangeli, Grimalda Emanuela and others.
Healer St. Luka Krymsky
our contemporary, canonized
St. Luke of Crimea – our contemporary (in the world Valentin Feliksovich Voino-Yasenetsky: April 27 (May 9), 1877, Kerch - June 11, 1961, Simferopol). Russian scientist, surgeon, healer and spiritual figure, preacher, writer, bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church. For numerous merits and extraordinary abilities, he was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church and canonized.
Fate led him along the missionary path. But at first he did not intend to be not only a priest, but also did not immediately discover his calling to become a doctor. Since childhood, the future archbishop loved to draw, graduated from the Kyiv Art School and was about to enter the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.
At the last moment, he decided that he had no right to do only what he liked. And this decision turned his subsequent life upside down. Medicine was a new frontier that he set for himself. He had to do something that was difficult, and he almost forced himself to learn something that was alien. Nevertheless, unexpectedly for himself, Voino-Yasenetsky became interested in anatomy. And in the end, “... from a failed artist he became an artist in anatomy and surgery” (as he recalled about himself).
After defending their dissertation in 1917, the Voino-Yasenetskys moved to Tashkent. There Valentin Feliksovich received the position of chief physician and surgeon of the city hospital.
There, the surgeon, as a deeply religious person, finds himself at the church congress of Turkestan and gives a fiery report - only because the state of affairs in the Tashkent diocese seemed depressing to him. But he was by no means an indifferent person.
And after the meeting, the ruling bishop came up to him and said: “Doctor, you need to be a priest. Your job is not to baptize, but to evangelize,” and entrusted him with the work of preaching.
A prominent scientist, author of medical monographs, healer, c Saint Luke spoke about faith simply and clearly, with God’s inherent gift. But he continued to operate and lecture at the medical faculty, where he came straight in a cassock and with a cross on his chest.
In the 20s, the GPU took over Archbishop Luke and his wanderings began. In 1921, the head of the local Cheka, Latvian Peters, organized a show trial of “reactionary” doctors andValentin Voino-Yasenetsky was summoned to court:
Tell me, priest and professor Yasenetsky-Voino, how is it that you pray at night and slaughter people during the day?
I cut people to save them, but in the name of what do you cut people day and night?
How is it that you, professor, believe in God? You cut people's legs, arms - have you ever seen a soul?
I also operated on the brain and performed craniotomy, but I never saw the mind there either. And I didn’t find any conscience there either.
However, the personal authority of the preacher by that time was so great that the matter ended with exile to Arkhangelsk. The second exile was to Siberia. Throughout the war from 1941 to 1945, Voino-Yasenetsky saved the wounded in the Krasnoyarsk hospital and continued his research in the field of purulent surgery.
For scientific work "Essays on purulent surgery" repressed archbishop received the Stalin Prize I degrees in 1946. God's providence saved him from persecution, thanks to his surgical practice and talent as a scientist.
In the same year c Bishop Luka was transferred to Crimea. He spent the last 15 years of his life in Simferopol: as always, he treated, helped the poor, and restored the devastated diocese.
Healing with the icon of St. Luke of Crimea
Nowadays people come to the icon of St. Luke for healing
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He is still in the hearts of people - a healer from God. Known case of miraculous healing a boy musician who injured his hand. Doctors gave him a disappointing diagnosis and the operation did not give a reliable result. Then the boy began to come to Ksv. Lukey is on his knees asking for help. He said that he really wanted to become a pianist...
During his lifetime, the healer Archbishop Luke treated people with the help of medicine and the word of God. Now anyone can read his books, works on medicine and philosophical treatises "Science and Religion", "Spirit, Soul and Body". His memory is kept in the Holy Trinity Convent (Simferopol). The relics of the saint rest there. In 2000, he was canonized and canonized.
Announced to the saints. The Neapolitan doctor was not only a good doctor, but also a man with a big soul. His deep faith gave him a sense of mercy and compassion for others. In his opinion, she could heal better than any doctor.
Giuseppe Moscati: biography
He was born in Benevento (Italy), formerly known as the "city of witches", in 1880. He was the sixth child in the family and had 8 more brothers and sisters. His father was a sought-after lawyer, so the family lived in abundance. When his parents moved to Naples, little Giuseppe turned 4 years old. It is in this city that he will live until the end of his days.
In 1889, the boy completed his studies in primary school and continued his studies at the Lyceum. After graduation, he enters the university at the Faculty of Medicine.
During the First World War, Giuseppe Moscati tried to enroll in a volunteer detachment, but was refused, as the commission decided that medical skills would be much more useful in the rear. He was sent to work in a hospital, where during wartime there were more than three thousand wounded front-line soldiers under his care.
In 1919, he received the position of chief physician in one of the Naples hospitals for terminally ill patients. After 3 years he was given the right to teach in a public clinic.
The following year, the country's government sent Moscati to the capital of Scotland, the city of Edinburgh, where a congress of physiologists from all over the world was held.
His deep faith in Christ and his encouragement of patients to participate in Christian church rituals gathered around him many enemies in the form of atheists.
Selfless, ignorant of self-interest, too pious - this is exactly what friends say Giuseppe Moscati was. His biography ended too early. He died at the age of 47.
His knowledge and works helped in the study of diabetes and the creation of insulin. Moscati tried not to take money for treatment from the poor; he even helped them with small amounts, which he invested in the prescription he wrote out.
Reading about this, many people probably wondered: “Are there any doctors like Giuseppe Moscati now?”
Personal life
Moscati decided not to tie the knot and devoted his life entirely to his profession and the world. Avoiding worldly temptations, he consciously chose celibacy, claiming that he had never known a woman.
He lived with his sister, who ran the household and was in full control of the finances, protecting the great doctor from everyday problems.
"Sick - Nature's Book"
The actions of Giuseppe Moscati tell the best story about what a merciful and pure person he was.
For example, when he was called to help a sick person living in a neighborhood with a bad reputation, he did not refuse. If someone started talking about the danger of such areas, Moscati said: “You can’t be afraid when you go to do a good deed.”
One day, acquaintances met Giuseppe in one of the squares, which was located far from his place of residence. When asked what he was doing here, the doctor answered with a laugh: “I come here to become a spittoon for a poor student.”
The guy was sick with the initial stage of tuberculosis, and if the owners of the room he was renting found out about this, he would have been kicked out. Giuseppe came every day to collect and burn dirty handkerchiefs and exchange them for clean ones.
But the most touching incident, testifying to Moscati’s boundless kindness and professionalism, occurred with an old man in need of daily supervision. Working at the hospital, Giuseppe was very busy and could not come to the old man every day, so he offered him an interesting way out. Every morning, the old man must sit at a table in a cafe, past which Moscati walks to work, and drink hot milk with cookies (naturally, at the expense of the good doctor). Every time, passing by the establishment, Giuseppe looked out the window and checked if he was sick. If he was not there, it meant a deterioration in the old man’s health, and Moscati would go to his home on the outskirts of the city as soon as he had free time.
He devoted a lot of time to students and aspiring doctors, sharing his knowledge and experience with them, saying: “There is no hierarchy next to the patient.”
Many asked him the question of how he withstands colossal daily loads, depriving his body of proper rest. To which the Neapolitan doctor replied: “He who takes communion every morning has an inexhaustible supply of energy.”
All quotes by Giuseppe Moscati are clear evidence of the purity of his soul.
A film about a life filled with love and dedication
There are many films in the world that make you think about your life after watching them. This is exactly what the biographical film “Giuseppe Moscati: Healing Love” is, directed by Giacomo Campiotti.
Both the plot and the production of the film about the life of a Neapolitan doctor were performed at a high professional level. The film looks like a breeze. The interweaving of life's joys and sufferings shown in the film can melt even the coldest heart.
A little about the plot
The film begins with two friends graduating from medical school and preparing for their final exams. Young Moscati was able not only to brilliantly cope with this task, but also to help his friend.
From now on, friends will have an internship in one of the hospitals in Naples, where strict rules cannot be violated, but for them this is the best place to develop their medical skills.
Giuseppe spends days in the hospital and tries to give each patient maximum attention, thereby winning respect and love among the patients. And when an earthquake occurs in Naples, he is the first to run to the rescue and saves more than a dozen patients.
Many people, while viewing the film “Giuseppe Moscati: Healing Love,” come to understand that charity and faith are more than daily Bible reading and prayer. As the Holy Scripture says: “Faith without works is dead.”
Canonization
Giuseppe Moscati's body was reburied in 1930 in the Gesu Nuovo (church in Naples). Exactly 45 years later he was beatified. The process of canonization occurred after the mother of a Naples resident with cancer saw in her vision a doctor who healed her son of the disease. From the photograph presented to her, she recognized Giuseppe.
The canonization carried out by John Paul became a clear example of the fact that even a modern layman who has chosen a simple profession can become a saint.
Today, the relics of Moscati Giuseppe are kept in the Church of Gesu Nuovo. Within its walls there is a recreated doctor's room, where several medical instruments that he used and his clothes are stored.
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Giuse?ppe Mosca?ti(Italian: Giuseppe Moscati; July 25, 1880 - April 12, 1927) - saint of the Roman Catholic Church, Italian doctor, researcher, university professor.
Biography
Born July 25, 1880 in Benevento. Giuseppe was the sixth of nine children in a wealthy family; his father was a prominent lawyer. When Giuseppe was 4 years old, the family moved to Naples, where he spent the rest of his life. After graduating from primary school in 1889, he entered the Lyceum Victor Emmanuel, then studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Naples, from which he graduated in 1903 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
After graduating from university, he worked as a freelance adjunct in one of the Neapolitan hospitals. During the eruption of Vesuvius in 1906, he was assigned to lead the evacuation of the hospital in Torre del Greco - he saved the patients at the risk of his own life. In 1908, he became a full-time assistant in the department of physiological chemistry at the Neapolitan Medical Institute. In 1911 he made a great contribution to the elimination of the cholera epidemic in Naples. In the same year he was accepted as a member of the Italian Royal Medical and Surgical Academy.
During the First World War, he tried to enroll as volunteers, but was turned down, believing that his medical abilities would be more useful. In the hospital where Moscati worked during the war, up to 3,000 wounded soldiers were under his care.
In 1919, he was appointed chief physician of the department for terminally ill patients in one of the Neapolitan hospitals. In 1922, a special commission of the Ministry of Public Education gave him the right to freely teach in a general medical clinic. In 1923 he was sent by the Italian government to the International Physiological Congress in Edinburgh. Moscati made a great contribution to the study of the problem of diabetes; his works greatly contributed to the discovery of insulin. He was the editor-in-chief of the medical journal Reforma Medika.
According to his colleagues, Moscati was known for his dedication, selflessness and deep piety. He almost never took payment for treatment from the poor, and helped those especially in need himself, putting banknotes in the prescriptions he wrote out. He openly professed the Christian faith, taking communion daily and encouraging the sick to participate in church sacraments, for which he made many enemies in the medical community from among materialists and anti-Christians.
He died in 1927 at the age of 47 from a sudden illness.
Canonization
Three years after Moscati's death, his body was reburied in the Neapolitan Church of Gesu Nuovo on November 16, 1930; another 45 years later, on November 16, 1975, Giuseppe Moscati was beatified. After the case of the miraculous healing of Neapolitan Giuseppe Fusco from cancer recorded by the relevant commission (in a vision, the patient’s mother observed a man in a white coat who came to him, whom she then identified as Moscati from a photograph), the process of canonization was initiated.
Giuseppe Moscati was canonized by Pope John Paul II on October 25, 1987, as a pious layman who used his profession as a doctor to spread Christianity and works of mercy among the sick in need of spiritual help. Moscati's canonization became an example of how holiness can be achieved by a modern layman who has chosen an ordinary secular profession. It is significant that the canonization was announced at the end of the General Synod of Bishops, which for almost two months discussed the topic of the vocation and mission of the laity in the Church and the world. In his speech dedicated to the canonization of Giuseppe Moscati, John Paul II said:
The center of veneration for Giuseppe Moscati in Naples is the Church of Gesu Nuovo, to which the saint’s body was transferred three years after his death. Subsequently, the relics of Giuseppe Moscati were placed under the altar of one of the side chapels, and a museum dedicated to the saint was built in the former sacristy. The walls of the memorial hall are hung with numerous votive offerings from believers, the furnishings of Moscati’s room have been recreated, and his clothes and medical instruments are kept.
The saints are among us, they pray, help in word and deed, they save this world, otherwise it would have been destroyed long ago. We don't notice them, or rather, we don't want to see them. The point of this article is not to teach, but to lead a little to reflection and, perhaps, effective changes in one’s existence. Maybe after reading this publication or watching the film of the same name (“Giuseppe Moscati - Healing Love”) you will deepen your search for truth, look around you, change your attitude towards others, look inside your soul.
How people were tested for holiness
People are judged by their actions. To identify a holy person, one must have the knowledge of how to do so. Previously, those whom people called saints were simply tested - they were thrown into a pit with a hungry predatory animal (tiger or lion) and observed. Usually the animal would attack and eat the person. But if the hungry beast took a humble pose and licked the feet of the prisoner of the pit, the latter was taken out and expressed respect.
Over the years, there were more and more religions and scammers, and this rule was canceled. And people want to get priceless things cheaply, which is why there are cheap gurus (teachers of spiritual knowledge). But today we will talk about the man before whom even his ill-wishers bowed their heads.
Unusual Doctor
In the world his name was Giuseppe Moscati. The biography of this person is truly amazing. He came to Earth on July 25, 1880, to a wealthy noble family in the city of Benevento, located northeast of Naples (Italy). At the age of seventeen, the young man took a vow of lifelong chastity. Of course, anyone can make such a vow, but keeping it, to put it mildly, is not easy. It is required to lead a certain way of life (live only for the benefit of others), otherwise it is just a pathetic farce.
Moscati Giuseppe completely dedicated his life to God. He expressed his sincere faith not only through prayers, but also through practical service to all the people around him.
Career stages
In 1903, Giuseppe received his doctorate in medicine. Eight years later he was already the leading doctor at the Naples clinic for the terminally ill. After another similar period of time, he defended his doctoral dissertation and gained fame in scientific circles for his 32 scientific publications.
He was always at the center of the most terrible events from a worldly point of view (in 1906 he saved people after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and in 1911 he was at the center of the height of the plague in Naples). But from the descriptions only a small part of the affairs of this great personality has reached us.
Missionary activities
Moscati Giuseppe was loved by everyone: both poor and rich. Although in doctoral circles many people ridiculed him for his non-standard methods of treatment, or rather, they simply envied him. Wearing a doctor's robe, he spoke more with the patients about spiritual things, and this was not a professional trick. Rather, this was the manifestation of true compassion and selfless love for all living beings. He asked me not to worry too much about the physical, although he actually treated me and prescribed medications. He didn’t take extra money from the rich, he kept it for himself only for a modest life, and with his income he paid for medicine and food for the poor. And he did it not for show, but secretly, so that no one would know. Sometimes the patient found money in his prescription or under his pillow after the doctor left.
Moscati's selfless heart
Doctor Moscati Giuseppe asked to go to church services more often, which he himself attended in his free hours. He inspired me to listen about God, think about eternal happiness, and take the sacrament of communion.
People no longer trusted him for his doctorate, but for his kind, loving heart, selflessness and sincere desire to help everyone. Patients had to remain silent about many things, because good deeds were ridiculed at all times. And people in scientific circles did not want to believe in miracles of spiritual healing. Everyone wanted to write their own book, which described the merits of the author himself, and not God.
Professor Moscati Giuseppe always treated his students as equals (even first-year students), asked their opinions, and was never proud or exalted himself or his merits. Showing the body of a dead man during training, Giuseppe Moscati said without ridicule that human selfishness ends here, so it is important to forgive your offenders before death comes, and try to be kinder to others. The students were so inspired that they followed the doctor with open mouths (or rather, hearts) as he walked to church for mass during his lunch break. And they even escorted him with the whole crowd all the way to his house, where another line of people was waiting for the professor - poor patients and the needy.
The doctor's kind heart really worked miracles, most of which are described in the film "Giuseppe Moscati - Healing Love." Nobody cared how much Giuseppe slept and rested. Only the Lord himself knew this, taking his faithful follower to a place where there is no more suffering and death. Giuseppe Moscati left a huge mark after such a short life. The biography of this unique doctor, who lived only 46 years, is presented in the film of the same name.
Legends about the doctor
Memorial Day (physical death) - April 12, 1927. As they said then, the world has lost a saint, and the sick and poor of Naples have lost everything. But many sufferers said that Dr. Moscati came to them and treated them. They, in turn, later learned that their beloved doctor had been dead for a year, or even more. But they refused to believe it. And to this day the saint comes to serve those who ask for his help, and to those who are not needed by anyone in this world.
Only in 1975 he was canonized. Those who knew and believed will continue to communicate with Dr. Moscati and receive help. And those who did not believe (the proud and envious) will remain so for now. The Lord constantly sends His messengers to both, so that we become who we are, and not who we consider ourselves to be (only this material body).
The saint's relics are kept in the Church of Gesu Nuovo in Naples. According to local traditions, it is possible to touch the graphic imprint of the hand of Blessed Moscati.
Much more could be said about this amazing personality, but it is better to watch the biographical film of the same name, “Giuseppe Moscati - Healing Love.” In Italy, the premiere of the cinematic masterpiece took place in 2007. Two years later, the film was shown on the Russian channel "Culture".
