Born in Milan on November 9, 1868.
Died in Lodi on 11 June 1952.
Ordained priest for the Ambrosian diocese in 1890, he obtained degrees in theology and canon law at the Gregorian and, returning to Milan, was a teacher in the major seminary and chancellor of the curia, then rector of the philosophical seminary of Monza and, finally, provost of Saronno. On 21 December 1914 he was proclaimed bishop of Bobbio, an election which was greeted by the Guanellian bulletin. In 1927 he was transferred to the diocese of Lodi.
Don Mazzucchi in 1916 asked him to communicate his memories of Don Guanella, and Msgr. Calchi Novati admitted that he had very few times the good fortune to approach him during his brief stay as provost in Saronno (Milan), where Don Guanella had opened a home for needy girls. However, the impression left on him was that he had met "a priest of boundless charity", "of unshakable trust in divine Providence" and "of such and such continuous union with God that in the people who treated him for the first time he left the impression of a seldom saintly person.
Sources
Hierarchia catholica medii et modernioris aevi, vol. IX: 1903-1922, edited by Zeno Pięta, Padua, Publisher «Il Messaggero di S. Antonio», 2002, p. 88.
Guanellian sources
- Our dead, in "The Divine Providence", 1952, p. 138.
- Congratulations, in "The Divine Providence", 1914, p. 191.
- Archive of the Centro Studi Guanelliani, Fondo Mazzucchi, XIX, 12.
Photography
"The Pilgrim". Illustrated Weekly of the Holy Year, 10 April 1925, p. 3.
AM Dieguez
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