Today is San Giuseppe Moscati. Prayer to the Saint to ask for a grace

Most lovable Jesus, whom you deigned to come to earth to heal
the spiritual and bodily health of men and you were so wide
of thanks for San Giuseppe Moscati, making him a second doctor
your Heart, distinguished in its art and zealous in apostolic love,
and sanctifying it in your imitation by exercising this double,
loving charity towards your neighbor, I earnestly beg you
of wanting to grant me the grace for his inercession…. I ask you, if it's for yours
greater glory and for the good of our souls. So be it.
Pater, Ave, Glory

San Giuseppe Moscati "The Holy Doctor" of Naples
Giuseppe Moscati was born on July 25, 1880 in Benevento, seventh among the nine children of the magistrate Francesco Moscati and Rosa De Luca, of the Marquises of Roseto. He was baptized on July 31, 1880.

In 1881 the Moscati family moved to Ancona and then to Naples, where Giuseppe made his first communion on the feast of the Immaculate Conception of 1888.
From 1889 to 1894 Giuseppe completed his high school studies and then his high school studies at the “Vittorio Emanuele”, obtaining his high school diploma with brilliant marks in 1897, at the age of just 17. A few months later, he began his university studies at the medical faculty of the Neapolitan University.
From an early age, Giuseppe Moscati demonstrates an acute sensitivity for the physical suffering of others; but his gaze does not stop at them: it penetrates to the last recesses of the human heart. He wants to heal or soothe the wounds of the body, but at the same time he is deeply convinced that soul and body are one and he ardently desires to prepare his suffering brothers for the saving work of the Divine Physician. August 4, 1903, Giuseppe Moscati he graduated in medicine with full marks and the right to the press, thus crowning the “curriculum” of his university studies with dignity.

Since 1904 Moscati, after having passed two competitions, has been serving as assistant at the hospital degl'Incurabili, in Naples, and among other things organizes the hospitalization of those affected by rabies and, through a very courageous personal intervention, saves the hospitalized in the hospital of Torre del Greco, during the eruption of Vesuvius in 1906.
In the following years Giuseppe Moscati obtained the suitability, in a competition for exams, to the laboratory service at the Domenico Cotugno infectious disease hospital.
In 1911 he took part in the public competition for six places of ordinary help in the Ospedali Riuniti and won it sensationally. Appointments as ordinary coadjutor are followed, in hospitals and then, following the competition for ordinary doctor, the appointment as head waiter, that is to say primary. During the First World War he was director of the military wards in the Ospedali Riuniti.

This hospital "curriculum" is flanked by the various stages of the university and scientific one: from the university years until 1908, Moscati is a voluntary assistant in the physiology laboratory; from 1908 onwards he was full assistant in the Institute of Physiological Chemistry. Following a competition he was appointed voluntary trainer of the III Medical Clinic, and in charge of the chemical department until 1911. At the same time, he covered the different levels of teaching.

In 1911 he obtained, by qualifications, the Free Teaching in Physiological Chemistry; is in charge of leading scientific and experimental research at the Institute of Biological Chemistry. Since 1911 he has taught, without interruption, "Laboratory investigations applied to the clinic" and "Chemistry applied to medicine", with exercises and practical demonstrations. In a private capacity, during some school years, he teaches semeiology (study of all types of signs, be it linguistic, visual, gestural, etc.) and hospital, clinical and pathological casuistry to numerous graduates and students. For several academic years he completed the substitute in the official courses of Physiological Chemistry and Physiology.
In 1922, he obtained the Free Teaching in General Medical Clinic, with dispensation from the lesson or from the practical test to unanimous votes of the commission.Celebrated and highly sought after in the Neapolitan environment when he was still very young, the Moscati professor soon conquered a national reputation and international for his original research, the results of which are published by him in various Italian and foreign scientific journals. However, it is not only and not even mainly the brilliant qualities and sensational successes of Moscati that arouse the wonder of those who approach it. More than anything else, it is his own personality that leaves a profound impression on those who meet him, his limpid and coherent life, completely impregnated with faith and charity towards God and towards men. Moscati is a first-rate scientist; but for him there are no contrasts between faith and science: as a researcher he is at the service of truth and truth is never in contradiction with itself, much less with what the eternal Truth has revealed to us.

Moscati sees the suffering Christ in his patients, loves him and serves him in them. It is this impulse of generous love that pushes him to do his best without stopping for those who suffer, not to wait for the sick to come to him, but to look for them in the poorest and most abandoned neighborhoods of the city, to treat them for free, indeed, to help them with his own earnings. And everyone, but especially those who live in misery, intuit in admiration the divine strength that animates their benefactor. Thus Moscati becomes the apostle of Jesus: without ever preaching, he announces, with his charity and with the way in which he lives his profession as a doctor, the Divine Shepherd and leads to him the oppressed men thirsting for truth and goodness . External activity grows constantly, but his hours of prayer are also prolonged and his encounters with Jesus in the sacrament are progressively internalized.

His conception of the relationship between faith and science is summarized in two of his thoughts:
«Not science, but charity has transformed the world, in some periods; and only very few men have gone down in history for science; but all will be able to remain imperishable, symbol of the eternity of life, in which death is but a stage, a metamorphosis for a higher ascent, if they dedicate themselves to good. "
«Science promises us well-being and, at the most, pleasure; religion and faith give us the balm of consolation and true happiness ... "

On April 12, 1927, prof. After taking part in Mass, as he did every day, and having waited for his homework and private practice, Moscati felt ill and expired on his armchair, cut short in full swing, at just 46 years of age; the news of his death is announced and propagated word of mouth with the words: "The Holy Doctor is dead".

Giuseppe Moscati was raised to the honors of the altar by Blessed Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini, 1963-1978), during the Holy Year, on November 16, 1975; canonized by St. John Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtyła, 1978-2005), October 25, 1987.