Constantine Vendrame
{{Short description|Italian Salesian missionary}}
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| birth_place = San Martino di Colle Umberto, Treviso, Italy
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| death_place = Dibrugarh, Assam, India
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Constantine Vendrame,{{Cite web|url=https://shop.dolfi.com/en/blessed-saints-martyrs-patrons-c/3472-Servant-of-God--Constantine-Vendrame-Salesian-Missionary-8111100.html|title=Servant of God, Constantine Vendrame "Salesian Missionary"|website=Dolfi Shop|language=en|access-date=2019-03-26|archive-date=2019-03-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326181414/https://shop.dolfi.com/en/blessed-saints-martyrs-patrons-c/3472-Servant-of-God--Constantine-Vendrame-Salesian-Missionary-8111100.html|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://shillongtoday.com/musical-drama-staged-on-missionary-from-italy-fr-constantine-vendrame/|title=Musical drama staged on missionary from Italy, Fr. Constantine Vendrame|last=Today|first=Shillong|date=2017-10-23|website=shillongtoday|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-26}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BIL5GgAACAAJ|title=No Frontiers: The Life of Fr. Constantine Vendrame, SDB.|last=Burns (SDB.)|first=Patrick|date=1980|publisher=Don Bosco Press|language=en}} also known as the "Apostle of Shillong"{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dzU9NyOycG4C&q=Constantine+Vendrame&pg=PA117|title=Paths of Mission in India Today|last=Kanjamala|first=Augustine|date=1997|publisher=St Pauls BYB|isbn=9788171092864|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=http://mattersindia.com/tag/father-constantine-vendrame/|title=Father Constantine Vendrame – Matters India|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-26}} was a Salesian missionary from Italy who worked for the welfare of Khasis, in North East, India.{{Cite web|url=http://donboscoindia.com/english/bis/default_ms.php?newsid=4716&pno=247&newsidlist=,4723,4722,4721,4720,4718,4717,4716,4715,4714,4713,|title=Don Bosco India -|website=donboscoindia.com|access-date=2019-03-26}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.theshillongtimes.com/2017/10/23/musical-staged-on-first-salesian-missionary-to-northeast/|title=Musical staged on first Salesian missionary to Northeast|website=The Shillong Times|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-26}}
Early life and education
Constantine Vendrame was born on 27 August 1893 to Pietro and Elena Fiori in San Martino di Colle Umberto, Treviso, Italy. He joined the Salesian novitiate at Ivrea on 15 September 1913. He completed his study of philosophy and was sent for his regency to the oratory of Chioggia. He also served for a four-year compulsory military service. After the completion of his military service, he pursued his theological formation while working simultaneously in the oratories of Chioggia and Venice.
Priesthood
On 15 March 1924 Vendrame was ordained a Catholic priest by the cardinal Eugenio Tosi at the chapel of the Archiepiscopal seminary of Milan.
Missionary to India
Vendrame arrived in Shillong on 23 December 1924. At the start of the World War II in 1939, Vendrame and another 150 Italian missionaries were put in the concentration camp. After the war Vendrame was asked by Louis Mathias to go to Wandiwash, Tamil Nadu. He came back to Shillong in 1951. He was always busy in preaching gospel, helping needy and bringing people back to the church.
Death
Vendrame died in Dibrugarh, Assam, India, on 30 January 1957.{{Citation|last=Vadakumpadan|first=Paul|editor4-first=Jessica|editor4-last=Richard|editor3-first=Joshua|editor3-last=Kalapati|editor2-first=Jesudas M|editor2-last=Athyal|editor1-first=Roger E|editor1-last=Hedlund|title=Vendrame, Constantine|date=2011|url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198073857.001.0001/acref-9780198073857-e-1037|encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopaedia of South Asian Christianity|publisher=Oxford University Press|language=en|doi=10.1093/acref/9780198073857.001.0001|isbn=9780198073857|access-date=2019-03-26|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.dibrugarhdiocese.org/deceasedlistnecrology.php|title=Diocese Overview {{!}} Diocese Of Dibrugarh|website=www.dibrugarhdiocese.org|access-date=2019-03-26}} On 1 July 2014 the mortal remains of Constantine Vendrame were moved to the Shrine of Sacred Heart of Jesus, Mawlai, Shillong, India.{{Cite web|url=http://donboscoindia.com/english/bis/newscomments_default.php?newsid=7107|title=Don Bosco India -|website=donboscoindia.com|access-date=2019-03-26}}
Sainthood
The process for canonisation is underway for Constantine Vendrame.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucanews.com/news/hero%e2%80%99s-sainthood-process-moves-to-rome/16946|title=Hero's sainthood process moves closer|website=ucanews.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-26}}
See also
References
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Category:Italian Roman Catholic missionaries
Category:Roman Catholic missionaries in India
Category:Salesians of Don Bosco
Category:20th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests