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Giuseppe Marello was born on December 26th, 1844, in the north of Italy, at Turin. Joseph was the kind of person who responded quickly to those in need. Even as a young boy, he would very often give away his own possessions and invite the homeless and the hungry to the family table.

In those early years he was faithful to his religious duties and eager to help his parish priest, especially by serving as an altar boy.

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It was there he began to realize he, too, was being called to the priesthood.

Joseph was ordained a priest on September 19th, 1868. During the years of his seminary studies, he never forgot about the needs of the poor around him, and he was just as eager, if not more so, to come to their aid in as many ways as he could find.

For a number of years he had considered gathering around him a group of men who would join him in his efforts to serve the poor and so, on March 14th, 1878, he brought together his first community of men, calling them the “Company of Saint