Gioacchino La Lomia
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Gioacchino La Lomia （3 March 1831 – 30 July 1905） - born Gaetano La Lomia and in religious Gioacchino Fedele da Canicattì - was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.
La Lomia served as part of a papal-commissioned mission to Brazil where he dedicated himself to works of evangelization and the preservation of culture.
He was a noted preacher and served as a confessor to Emperor Pedro II. La Lomia's cause for canonization commenced and he was titled as a Servant of God when it commenced.
In 2002 he was named as Venerable upon confirmation of his life of heroic virtue.
Gaetano La Lomia was born on 3 March 1831 in Canicattì as the seventh of nine children to the baron Nicolò La Lomia and Eleonora Agostino （ 1799-15.3.1879）; the couple married on 11 October 1818.
One brother was Francesco Salvatore.
His maternal grandparents were Ferdinando Agostino and Rosalia Li Chiavi and his maternal great-grandfather was Marco Agostino.
His nephew was the writer Agostino Fausto La Lomia （30.1.1905-21.1.1978）.
He received baptism from Biagio Salamone and his godparents were Emanuele and Carolina La Lomia.
He decided to become a Franciscan after he heard the Capuchin priest Michele da San Cataldo preach.
La Lomia entered the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin on 4 November 1851 where he assumed the religious name of "Gioacchino Fedele da Canicattì" and was vested
on 12 December 1852 before he was ordained to the priesthood in Palermo on 2 June 1855; he had received the tonsure and minor orders the previous 2 March.
La Lomia made his solem...