B. Enrico Rebuschini 
Conferring the honor of beatification on a hospitaller who suffered occasional nervous breakdowns is an act that might seem surprising at first. But in proclaiming Father Enrico Rebuschini blessed on May 4, 1997, Pope John Paul II comforted many men and women of our time who face similar difficulties, either in themselves or in loved ones.
Enrico was born in northern Italy, in Gravedona on the northwest shore of Lake Como, on April 28, 1860. His father, Domenico, an administrative clerk before becoming head tax inspector for Como province, was not in favor of religion. He would accompany his wife to the church door but remained outside. His mother, Sophia, a model Christian, was a native of Livorno in Tuscany. Enrico was the second of five children. After finishing his secondary school studies, Enrico, who because of his father's opposition could not follow his call to religious life, enrolled at the university in Pavia to study mathematics. A calm boy of good upbringing, he stayed only one year at the university, where anticlericalism aroused in him bitterness and disgust.
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