Artémides Zatti

Artemide Zatti was an Italian-born Salesian brother and pharmacist who spent his working life caring for the sick in Argentina. Born in Reggio Emilia on 12 October 1880, he emigrated with his family to Argentina in 1897 and settled in Bahía Blanca. Encouraged by the priest Carlos Cavalli, he joined the Salesians of Don Bosco, and after catching tuberculosis while nursing a priest he recovered at Viedma, where in 1903 he took charge of the pharmacy of the San José hospital. He earned a diploma in nursing, visited patients through the day, worked from 4:30 in the morning until 11 at night and had a new hospital built in 1913. He became an Argentine citizen in 1914 and died of liver cancer on 15 March 1951. He was beatified in 2002 and canonized on 9 October 2022.