Ludovico Sabbatini

Ludovico Sabbatini (30 August 1650 – 11 June 1724) was an Italian priest and religious educator, who was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1765.

[1] He involved himself with the Congregazione dei Pii Operai (Congregation of Pious Workers), teaching religion to the children of the poor and manual laborers of Naples and assisting in the celebration of mass at the Church of San Nicola alla Caritá, a renowned center of spirituality.

Sabbatini was ordained a priest at age 24 and soon began to teach at the religious academies of San Giorgio Maggiore and Santa Maria ai Monte.

In 1684 he founded a monastery near the Santissima Annunziata Maggiore hospital, for abandoned young women who wished to enter religious life.

From that point, Sabbatini involved himself in many benevolent activities with the poor and ill in hospitals and prisons, as well as aiding Jewish people.