Religious Figure. The last of nine children born to a couple of farmers, Giusto Carlo Novarese, the father died at an early age in 1915 due to pneumonia. A childhood illness left young Luigi with a leg fifteen centimeters shorter than the other, having to wear special orthopedic shoes for the rest of his life. Undermined still by poor health, by 1923 he was diagnosed with bone tuberculosis, a disease that forced his mother to exhaust all of her available funds for treatment despite doctors giving up all hope on him recovering. Sending a letter to the Blessed Filippo Rinaldi, the third superior of the Salesians of Don Bosco, asking that he and his students remember him in their prayers, Rinaldi replied that along with the students, he would ask for the intercession of Saint Giovanni Bosco. Cured miraculously of his ailment at a rapid pace, he was able to leave the hospital in May 1931. During his recovery, Luigi decided that should he ever recover his strength, would go on to become a medical doctor, but eventually sought the priesthood after his mother died in 1935. Entering seminary in Casale Monferrato, he furthered his studies at the Capranica College in Rome, where he was ordained to the priesthood on December 17, 1938 at the Basilica of Saint John Lateran. Earning degrees in theology in 1939 and in canon law in 1943, on May 1 of the previous year he accepted an invitation from Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini, future Saint Pope Paul VI, to join his staff in the Secretariat of State, where he would remain until May 12, 1970. Notwithstanding his tasks at the secretariat, Novarese found time enough to found four humanitarian organizations: the Marian Priest League on May 17, 1943; the Volunteers of Suffering in 1947; the Silent Workers of the Cross in 1950 and the Brothers and Sisters of the Sick in 1952. Obtaining permission from Pope Pius XII to launch an hour dedicated to the sick on the Vatican Radio in 1949, Pope John XXIII placed him in charge of the chaplains of all Italian hospitals in 1962. During this period, Msgr. Novarese organized a number professional schools in Balerna, Switzerland; Arco, Condino, Valleluogo and Moncrivello, where the diversely able could learn a trade through bookbinding or by overseeing appliances repairs, becoming thus, active members in society. Put in charge of the health sector of the Italian Episcopal Conference in 1970, where he remained until 1977, he completely dedicated himself to the Apostolate of the Suffering, initiating in his final years, communities abroad, organizing conferences on religious and scientific themes bringing doctors and nurses together for discussion and planning spiritual retreats for psychiatric patients. Passing away on July 20, 1984 at Rocca Priora at the Silent Workers of the Cross Community dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, his cause for beatification was initiated on September 17, 1989 and concluded on May 11, 2013, with a celebration at Saint Paul Outside the Walls Basilica in Rome, presided by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone SDB., on behalf of Pope Francis. His liturgical memory is held on July 20.