Devotion to San Giuseppe Moscati: ask a grace to the Holy doctor

Giuseppe Moscati, seventh of nine children, was born in a family where his father Francesco is a magistrate and his mother Rosa De Luca is a noblewoman, coming from the family of the Marquis of Roseto.

In 1884 the father became a councilor of the Court of Appeal and moved the family to Naples.

After his brother Alberto was seriously injured by a fall from his horse during his military service, Giuseppe assisted him. From this family experience his interests in medicine began to mature. After finishing high school, he enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine in 1897. Due to a cerebral hemorrhage in the same year, his father died.

Giuseppe Moscati graduated with honors with a thesis on hepatic urogenesis on August 4, 1903. After a short while he tried the competition for ordinary assistant and extraordinary assistant at the Ospedali Riuniti degli Incurabili: he passed both tests. He will remain in the hospital for five years. A typical day of his during this period consisted of getting up early every morning to visit the poor in the Spanish quarters of Naples free of charge, before taking up work in the hospital for daily work; his intense day then continued in the afternoon visiting the sick in his private study in via Cisterna dell'Olio at number 10.

The great dedication for the sick, however, does not take away Joseph's time for the study and medical research he pursues by implementing a concrete balance between science and the Catholic faith.

It is the month of April 1906 when Vesuvius begins to erupt ash and lapilli on the city of Torre del Greco; a small hospital, the Incurabili branch is in danger and Moscati rushes to the scene to help rescue the sick before the structure collapses.

Two years later he passed the competition as an ordinary assistant for the Chair of Physiological Chemistry and began to carry out laboratory and scientific research activities in the Institute of Physiology.

It happens that in 1911 a fatal cholera epidemic Naples: Moscati is called to carry out research. It presents a report to the Inspectorate of Public Health on the works necessary for the rehabilitation of the city, works that will only be partially completed.

Also in 1911 he received free teaching in Physiological Chemistry on the proposal of Professor Antonio Cardarelli, who has always had great esteem for the preparation of the young doctor.

Member of the Royal Medical-Surgical Academy and director of the Moscati Institute of Pathological Anatomy, he is well remembered and esteemed by all the young student doctors who follow him during visits to patients.

It is 1914 when the mother dies of diabetes; World War I broke out and Moscati applied for voluntary recruitment; the application is rejected on the grounds that his work in Naples is more important; he does not fail to provide relief and spiritual comfort to wounded soldiers returning from the front. To concentrate on working in the hospital and staying close to the sick to whom he is very attached, in 1917 he renounced teaching and university teaching, leaving it to his friend professor Gaetano Quagliariello.

After the war, the board of directors of the Incurabili hospital nominated him primary (1919); in 1922 he obtained the Free Teaching in the General Medical Clinic, with dispensation from the lesson or from the practical test with unanimity of votes of the commission.

Numerous his researches are published in both Italian and international journals; important are the pioneering research on the chemical reactions of glycogen.

At only 46 years of age, after a sudden illness, he expires in the armchair of his home. It is April 12, 1927.

The news of his death spread quickly, summarized in the words of the people "the holy doctor died". Buried first in the Cemetery of Poggioreale on 16 November 1930, the body is then transferred to the Church of Gesù Nuovo, where it still rests.

Giuseppe Moscati was proclaimed Blessed by Pope Paul VI on November 16, 1975, and Saint on October 25, 1987 by John Paul II.

PRAYER
Giuseppe Moscati, sincere follower of Jesus, doctor of great heart, man of science and faith, sincere and virtuous who, in the exercise of your profession, healed the body and spirit of your patients, look at us who appeal to you with faith asking for your intercession.

Give us physical and spiritual health, so that we can generously serve the brothers, relieve the pain of those who suffer, comfort the sick. Comfort the afflicted, give hope to those in need of healing.

Holy doctor, you who fought incessantly for those who suffer, look to those who now suffer today so that they can find strength and courage when pain and despair overwhelm them; intercede with Jesus, our Savior, to place his blessed and miraculous hand on them, as he did during his stay on earth, to alleviate their suffering, so that they can overcome the disease and soon recover lost health.

Above all, glorious St. Joseph Moscati, I ask you for a miracle so that ... (name of the sick person) is cured of the disease that afflicts him so much today.

Make the care he gets better, make the doctors and nurses who take care of him

find a quick and effective solution to cure him, let him not lose his will to fight, that he longs to live, that he will not be discouraged by pain, intercede for a great miracle so that he will be freed from all the physical evil that affects his body .

Thank you St. Joseph Moscati, for having listened to my prayer, you who lived totally and tirelessly for the daily assistance of the sick, assist… .. (name of the patient); I ask you with immense confidence for help and comfort for his body and soul.

You who have been a generous doctor and have shown how you can be holy in work, be a guide for me and each one of us: teach us to have honesty and charity, to trust in God, and to fulfill our daily duties in a Christian way.

Saint Giuseppe Moscati, holy doctor, pray for all of us!