Venerable Br. Gregorio Buhl

Brother  Gregorio Buhl was born in Germany.  He  died in Torre del Greco at age 77.  His  cause for canonization has been sent to the Sacred Congregation. "Brother Gregorio came to Italy at the age of 17 from  Villingendorf, Germany, where he was born on 13 September 1896.  After his novitiate he expressed the wish  to go on the missions, but God disposed otherwise and in August of 1923 he  was assigned to the novitiate community where he remained for 50 years as  Sub-Director.  His intense spiritual  life found its nourishment in prayer, the Eucharist and filial love for the  Most Blessed Virgin.  He died a saintly  death in Torre del Greco on 11 December 1973.   The Cardinal Archbishop of Naples has asked the Sacred Congregation to  open the information process."  He was seventy-seven years old at the time  of his death, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty years. He  has been declared Venerable by the Vatican and thus named “Servant  of God.”