Born in Pianezza (Turin) on May 30, 1869.
Died in Pianezza on February 28, 1959.
Ordained a priest in 1892, he was titular bishop of Derbe and appointed auxiliary of Turin. After being the first military ordinary of Italy during the Great War, in 1919 he became bishop of Trieste and Capodistria. In 1922 it passed to the diocese of Pinerolo.
Don Guanella addressed him, with a letter dated July 12, 1915, to communicate, "in compliance with the superior provisions", the names of the two priests who until that day had been incorporated into the Royal Army: Don Filippo Bonacina, adjutant in the Corps of Territorial Health stationed in Milan, and Don Giovanni Anessi, chaplain added to the 91st Infantry Regiment, stationed in Varese-Luino.
Sources
Mourning in the Episcopate, in «L'Osservatore Romano», 2-3 March 1959, p. 2.
Guanellian sources
- Epistolary of Luigi Guanella, edited by the Centro Studi Guanelliani, E 218.
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Courtesy of Msgr. Lucio Bonora.
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