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The Somascan Fathers are an Order of Religious Priests and Brothers, formally known as the Order of Clerics Regular of Somasca (CRS). Their founder is Saint Jerome Emiliani, Venetian +1537, and the Universal Patron Saint of Orphans and Youth-in-Need. Saint Jerome Emiliani commenced the ‘Company of the Servants of the Poor’ following his miraculous liberation as a prisoner of war by the Blessed Virgin Mary on 27 September 1511, dedicating his life to the reform of the Church by announcing the Paternal Love of God through catechesis and service of the poor, particularly the orphaned, the dying, converted women and…