Vincent Cimatti

Vincent Cimatti, SDB^[1][2][3] was a Roman Catholic priest, bishop, prefect apostolic and Salesian provincial to Japan. He is founder of the Caritas Sisters of Jesus.^[4][5] He is the brother of Maria Raffaella Cimatti, a member of the Hospitaler Sisters of Mercy, who was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1996.

Venerable Vincent Cimatti, SDB
Born	Vincent Cimatti (1879-07-15)15 July 1879 Celle, Faenza, Ravenna, Kingdom of Italy
Died	6 October 1965(1965-10-06) (aged 86) Tokyo, Japan

Life

Vincent was born on 15 July 1879 in Faenza, Ravenna, Italy to James and Rosa Pasi, the youngest of six children.

He was ordained a priest at the age of 24. He led a group of Salesians to start a Salesian mission in Japan. He was appointed prefect apostolic in 1935.

Cimatti died on 6 October 1965 in Japan. His body was re-exhumed in 1977 and found to be perfectly intact. His remains are kept in a crypt in Chofu.^[6]

He was declared venerable on 21 December 1991 by Pope John Paul II.^[7]