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St. Vincent Pallotti was born on April 21, 1975, in the very heart of Rome. 21 April 1795, in the very heart of Rome. From childhood onward, Vincent Pallotti displayed an unusual depth of holiness and divine attributions that would later shape the entirty of his life and vocation. His conviction was simple yet revolutionary: every baptized person—lay or religious—shares a vocation to holiness and to active apostolate.

Long before the Church spoke of lay inclusion, Pallotti envisioned a communion of vocations working together for the Gospel. What his contemporaries regarded as unconventional would, generations later, become foundational for the Church’s understanding of shared mission.

St. Vincent died in 1850, after contracting an illness while assisting the poor during a period of severe cold. The very church from which he carried out his pastoral ministry—San Salvatore in Onda—remains the center of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, which he founded in 1835.

From those Roman beginnings, his missionary spirit has continued to expand—reaching over 50 countries today, carried by priests, sisters, and lay collaborators who live the charism he first ignited.