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Leonardo, Da Porto Maurizio

a noted missionary priest and the founder of the Brotherhood of the Heart of Jesus, was born in Liguria in 1676. While yet a youth he became a pupil of the Jesuits, and a member of the Order of the Reformed Franciscans. He was especially active in promoting the doctrine of the immaculate conception. He died about the middle of the 18th century, and was sainted by Pius VI in 1796.