Francesco Maria di Francia ( 19 February 1853 - 22 December 1913 ) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Capuchin Sisters of the Sacred Heart . He formed a close bond with his older brother ( canonized in 2004 ) and the two studied together under a priest uncle . He tried music after experiencing doubts about his vocation but continued his studies leading to his ordination in Messina where he would spend his entire life ministering to people . He aided the ill during a cholera epidemic while in 1908 aiding in rescue and reconstruction efforts following a violent earthquake . Di Francia also taught moral theological studies to seminarians for a time before being given a role in archdiocesan curial affiars some months before his death from a heart attack
a violent earthquake
1908 Messina earthquake
Francesco Maria di Francia