【慈幼通訊社 ─ 2022 年8月 27 日梵蒂岡訊】 ─ 教宗方濟各於2022年8月27日在聖伯多祿大殿舉行的例行公開接見活動中，宣佈：
——曾任皮亞琴察教區主教，聖嘉祿傳教會及聖嘉祿傳教女修會的會祖斯卡拉布里尼；
——鮑思高慈幼會修士柯蒂美．澤德
將於2022年10月9日（主日）封聖。
柯蒂美．澤德於1880年10月12日出生於意大利南部波樂托。小時候家境困難，九歲時便需以勞力謀生。因為家貧，在1897年他十七歲時，被迫移居到阿根廷，在布蘭卡港定居。
當時年青的柯蒂美．澤德，立刻四出工作，首先是在酒店，然後在製磚工場。他開始在慈幼會士管理的堂區中參與活動。當時主任司鐸是慈幼會士賈華利神父，是一位極其慈祥的虔誠神父。柯蒂美．澤德把賈華利神父視為神修導師，而賈華利神父也把他視為上佳的合作者。柯蒂美．澤德不久便轉向慈幼會生活。當他20歲時，便進入貝爾納的備修院。這對柯蒂美．澤德來說十分難受，因為他比同學年長，但學歷卻不及他們。然而，全靠他不屈不朽的意志、敏銳的智力及堅定不搖的虔敬，他克服了所有困難。
當他照顧一位身患肺結核的年青神父時，不幸染病。身在遠處的賈華利神父，對柯蒂美．澤德十分關顧，安排他轉往越瑪的會院，那裡氣候較佳，且有一所傳教醫院，駐有一位優良的慈幼會護士賈勞奈神父，擔任「醫療」工作。賈勞奈神父隨即了解到年青柯蒂美．澤德病況嚴重，同時覺察到他身上罕見的德行。他邀請柯蒂美．澤德祈求聖母進教之佑治好他的病，同時也邀請他作出許諾：「如果她治好你，你要畢生獻身服務病人。」柯蒂美．澤德願意作出許諾，並奇蹟地痊癒了。他以謙遜的心，接納放棄渴望晉鐸的痛苦（因為他的病情）。之後，他絕對沒有因為這畢生無法實現的目標而感到難過。
他於1908年1月11日矢發初願，成為修士，並於1911年2月18日宣發終身願。為遵守對聖母的許諾，他立刻全情投入醫院工作，首先在取得藥劑師資格後，負責相鄰的藥劑部的工作。當賈勞奈神父於1913年去世後，醫院所有工作由他承擔。事實上，他成為副院長、行政主管、專業護士，深受病人及醫生敬愛，漸漸地他能更自由地工作。在他一生中，醫院是他實踐聖德的地方，日復一日達到英豪的地步。
他的服務不限於醫院，更擴展到整個城市，也到達內格羅河沿岸的兩個市鎮：越瑪及 Patagones。他經常身穿白袍外出，攜帶盛放著日常藥物的袋子；一手拿著袋子而另一手拿著唸珠。他偏愛服務貧困家庭，但也有接受富有人家的求助。當有需要時，他日以繼夜地進行服務，不管天氣好壞。他不只停留在市中心，也到市郊的簡陋小屋服務。他分文不取，即使有人給他任何東西，他也全數交給醫院。
柯蒂美．澤德以真摯之情愛護他的病人，因為在他們身上看到耶穌。他時常遵從醫生及醫院負責人的指示。然而情況不總是那麼簡單，因為一些人的性格問題，或是在法律問題處理上法律經理人和他有不同的意見。雖然如此，他都能一一克服，以他親和力解決問題，甚至是需要極其小心處理的情況。只有深度的自制能力，能使他克勝日常工作中的困擾及不時出現的問題。
他是團體生活中忠信地樹立善表的見證。他的聖德使人吃驚，即使醫院事務繁忙，卻同時成為守規律的典範。他負責敲鐘，也比其他會士兄弟更緊貼團體的作息。他忠信於鮑思高向神子傳授的慈幼會士精神及「工作與節制」這句格言。他總是懷著一向的候命精神作好他大量的活動，富自我犧牲的精神，尤其是擔任夜班工作，完全不求個人的滿足，絲毫沒有休假。作為良好的慈幼會會士，他知道如何讓喜樂成為他聖德的一部份。他時常展露喜樂的笑容：這就是在他的相片中向我們展露的。他是容易相處的人，懷著可見的豐富的同理心，時常樂於令卑微的人喜樂。最重要的，他是一個天主的人，而他將此照耀出來。一位醫院的醫生說：「當我看到澤德修士時，我的無信消失了。」另一個說：「自從我遇到澤德修士後，我便信仰天主。」
他在1950年因意外從梯子跌下來後，首次出現患癌徵兆，而他確切診斷出來。然而，他患癌後仍繼續履行他的使命一年之久，在英勇地接受苦痛後，於1951年3月15日，在清醒的情況下去世，當時在他身旁，圍著一群愛慕他和感激他的人，從那時起他們開始以他的名轉求天主。所有居住在越瑪及Patagones的人，一同步往舉行葬禮的地方，盛況前所未見。
他聖德的名聲迅速傳播，到他墓地悼念的人也越來越多。即使今天，當人們到墳場參加喪禮後，也時常到訪柯蒂美．澤德的墳墓。2002年4月14日由聖若望保祿二世宣佈他為真福。真福柯蒂美．澤德是首位非致命慈幼會修士，被提昇到祭台上受人崇敬。
列聖品案總申請人卡梅洛尼神父
ARTEMIDE ZATTI WILL BE DECLARED A SAINT ON SUNDAY, 9 OCTOBER 2022
(ANS – Vatican, 27 August 2022) – On the occasion of the Ordinary Public Consistory held in St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday 27 August 2022 for the Canonisation of Blesseds:
– Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, Bishop of Piacenza, founder of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles and the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Saint Charles Borromeo;
– Artemide Zatti, professed layman of the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco (Salesians).
The Holy Father Pope Francis has decided that the Rite of Canonisation of the two Blesseds will be celebrated on Sunday 9 October 2022.
Artemide Zatti was born in Boretto (Reggio Emilia) on 12 October 1880. Early in life he experienced the harshness of sacrifice, so much so that at the age of nine he was already earning his living as a labourer. Forced by poverty, the Zatti family, in early 1897 (Artemide was then 17 years old), emigrated to Argentina and settled in Bahía Blanca.
Young Artemide immediately started working, first in a hotel and then in a brick factory. He started attending the parish run by the Salesians. The parish priest at that time was a Salesian, Fr. Carlo Cavalli, a pious man of extraordinary goodness. Artemide found in him his spiritual director and the parish priest found in Artemide an excellent collaborator. It did not take long for him to turn towards Salesian life. When he was 20 years old he left for the aspirantate in Bernal. Those were very hard years for Artemide, who was ahead of his companions in age but behind them in terms of the few studies he had done. He overcame all the difficulties, however, thanks to his tenacious will, keen intelligence and solid piety.
While taking care of a young priest hit by tuberclosis, he unfortunately contracted the disease. The paternal concern of Fr. Cavalli – who followed him from afar – meant that the Salesian House of Viedma was chosen for him, where there was a more suitable climate and above all a missionary hospital with a good Salesian nurse who in practice acted as a ‘doctor’: Fr. Evasio Garrone. The latter immediately realised the serious state of the young man’s health and at the same time sensed his uncommon virtues. He invited Artemide to pray to Mary Help of Christians to obtain healing, but also suggested making a promise: “If She heals you, you will dedicate your whole life to these sick people”. Artemide willingly made this promise and was mysteriously healed. He accepted with humility and docility, the great suffering of renouncing his desire for priesthood (because of the illness he had contracted). Neither then, nor later did he lament for this unattained goal of his life.
He made his first profession as a lay brother on 11 January 1908 and his Perpetual Profession on 18 February 1911. In keeping with the promise he made to Our Lady, he immediately and totally consecrated himself to the hospital, initially taking charge of the adjoining pharmacy after obtaining the title of ‘qualified in pharmacy’. When Fr. Garrone died in 1913, all responsibility for the hospital fell on his shoulders. In fact, he became it’s vice-director, administrator, an expert nurse esteemed by all the sick and by the doctors themselves, who gradually gave him more and more freedom of action. Throughout his life, the hospital was the place where he exercised his virtue, day after day, to a heroic degree.
His service was not limited to the hospital, but extended to the whole city, or rather to the two towns on the banks of the river Negro: Viedma and Patagones. He usually went out with his white coat and with his bag containing the most common medicines; with one hand on the handlebar and the other with the rosary. He preferred poor families, but was also called upon by the rich. In case of need, he moved at all hours of the day and night, whatever the weather be. He did not stay in the city centre, but also went to the hovels of the suburbs. He did everything for free, and if he received anything, he gave it to the hospital.
Artemide Zatti loved his sick in a truly moving way, as he saw Jesus himself in them. He was always obsequious towards the doctors and hospital owners. But the situation was not always easy, both because of the character of some of them and because of the disagreements that could arise between the legal managers and him. However, he was able to win over them and with his harmonious balance he managed to resolve even the most delicate situations. Only a profound self-mastery could make it possible for him to triumph over the hassle and the easy irregularities of the timetable.
He was an edifying witness of fidelity to the community life. It amazed everyone how this holy religious, so busy with his many commitments at the hospital, could at the same time be the exemplary representative of regularity. It was he who rang the bell, it was he who preceded all the other brothers in community appointments. Faithful to the Salesian spirit and to the motto – ‘work and temperance’ – bequeathed by Don Bosco to his sons, he carried out his prodigious activity with habitual readiness of spirit, with a spirit of sacrifice especially during night duty, with absolute detachment from any personal satisfaction, never taking holidays or rest. As a good Salesian, he knew how to make cheerfulness a component of his holiness. He always appeared cheerfully smiling: this is how all the photos that have reached us portray him. He was a man of easy human relations, with a visible charge of sympathy, always happy to entertain humble people. But he was above all a man of God. He radiated it. One of the hospital doctors said: ‘When I saw Br. Zatti my disbelief wavered’. And another: ‘I have believed in God ever since I met Br. Zatti’.
In 1950, he fell from a ladder and it was at this accident that the symptoms of cancer manifested themselves, which he lucidly diagnosed. However, he continued with his mission for another year, until after heroically accepting his sufferings, he passed away on 15 March 1951 in full consciousness, surrounded by the affection and gratitude of a population that from then on began to invoke him as an intercessor with God. All the inhabitants of Viedma and Patagones flocked to his funeral in an unprecedented procession.
The fame of his holiness spread quickly and his tomb began to be much venerated. Even today, when people go to the cemetery for funerals, they always visit the tomb of Artemide Zatti. Beatified by St John Paul II on 14 April 2002, Blessed Artemide Zatti was the first non-martyr Salesian coadjutor to be raised to the honours of the altars.
Fr. Pierluigi Cameroni SDB – Postulator Generale