Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows was an Italian Passionist seminarian born Francesco Possenti in Assisi in 1838. After choosing to forgo a secular career, he joined the Passionist Congregation in 1856 and adopted his religious name. He spent his short life focused on devotion to the Virgin Mary before passing away from tuberculosis in Isola del Gran Sasso at the age of 23. He was later canonized by Pope Benedict XV in 1920.