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Giuseppe Ambrosoli was born on July 25, 1923, in Ronago, Province of Como, in the northern part of Italy near the Swiss border. He was the seventh son of Giovanni Battista Ambrosoli and Palmira Valli.
As a child, Giuseppe studied in a school run by the Piarist Fathers in Genoa, and for high school, he studied in Como. As a young adult, he was active in the local Catholic Action group and was guided in his spiritual life by a Franciscan priest.
As a young man, Giuseppe went to the University of Milan to study medicine. In September 1943, however, Giuseppe’s studies were interrupted by World War II. He soon found himself bringing Jews to Switzerland to prevent them from being sent to Nazi concentration camps.
When Giuseppe returned home from saving Jews from Hitler, he learned that he had been drafted by the military. He joined the military on March 27, 1944, to begin his service.
In November of 1946, after his service was completed, Giuseppe returned to Milan and graduated with a Doctor of Medicine degree. With his M.D. in hand, he went to London where he did advanced studies in tropical medicine.
With his medical studies finished, Giovanni joined the Comboni Missionaries of the Sacred Heart in October of 1951 and was ordained a priest on December 17, 1955, in Milan.
As a new Comboni priest, Father was assigned to Kalongo, a town in northern Uganda and part of the Archdiocese of Gulu. There, he was able to not only to do pastoral work as a priest, but also put his medical skills into practice.
In Kalongo, for example, he began working in dispensary started as a grass hut clinic by a Comboni Missionary, Sister Eletta Mantiero in 1934. In 1957, through hard work and much help from others, Father Giuseppe began transforming the clinic into a 345-bed Kalongo Hospital. It was at the hospital that Father Giuseppe began admitting persons with Hansen’s disease, known commonly as “leprosy,” to the regular hospital. This prevented lepers from being sent to substandard “leprosaria.”
In 1959, Father Giuseppe also established St. Mary School of Midwifery to provide better care for pregnant women and their newborns.
Like many people who serve the sick, Father Giuseppe found it easy to see Christ in the sick persons he served.
Father Giuseppe died on March 27, 1987, in the Comboni mission in Lira, Diocese of Lira. In 1989, the hospital of Kalongo was renamed the Doctor Ambrosoli Memorial Hospital.
Pope Francis beatified Giuseppe on November 21, 2021. Blessed Giuseppe Ambrosoli’s feast day is March 27.
