Labre was born in 1748 in the village of Amettes,
near Arras, in the former Province of Artois in the
north of France. He was the eldest of fifteen children
of a prosperous shopkeeper, and was religious from
a very early age
Born
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March 25, 1748
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Died
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April 16, 1783 (aged 35)
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Honored in
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May 20, 1860, Rome by Pope Pius IX
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December 8, 1881, Rome by Pope Leo XIII
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Majorshrine
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Church of Santa Maria ai Monti
Rome, Italy
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April 17
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tri-cornered hat; alms
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Unmarried men (bachelors), rejects, mental illness, mentally ill people, insanity, beggars, hobos, the homeless
Death mask of Benedict Joseph Labre
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