Today, as well as being Saint David’s Day, is the 170th anniversary of the birth of Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows. Baptised Francesco (from which comes the family nickname Checchino) at the same baptismal font as Saint Francis of Assisi, Gabriel died on 27 February 1862, just two days before his twenty-fourth birthday. For more on Saint Gabriel, click here
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