Guarino distinguished himself when he tended to the ill during smallpox and cholera epidemics in Messina between 1885 and 1887 and during the 1894 earthquake offered his life to God .
Damage and casualties were minimal .
Guarino distinguished himself when he tended to the ill during smallpox and cholera epidemics in Messina between 1885 and 1887 and during the 1894 earthquake offered his life to God so that damage and casualties were minimal .