Born in Cremona on 20 September 1834.
Died in Bergamo on October 22, 1904.
Student of the Capranica College in Rome, teacher and then rector of the Cremonese seminary, he was wanted by Msgr. *Geremia Bonomelli as vicar general. Elected bishop of Borgo San Donnino in 1872, he was transferred to Bergamo on 19 September 1879. Mild by temperament, of liberal formation, he had to suffer the hostility of that part of the clergy anchored to Msgr. * Pierluigi Speranza, his intransigent predecessor.
Don Guanella was certainly in correspondence with Monsignor Guindani in 1898, for the release of remissorial letters for the cleric *Giacomo Mantecca, welcomed in the seminary by the benevolent bishop of Chur, Monsignor *Giovanni Fedele Battaglia, who restored him to the congregation as a priest. On July 3, 1902, the Guanellian nuns having settled in San Paolo d'Argon «for the kindness» of Msgr. Guindani, don Guanella wrote to the bishop asking for permission to beg for his nuns «because they have over two thousand poor people to support and among these many from Bergamo as well».
Sources
- Hierarchia catholica medii et modernioris aevi, vol. VIII: 1846-1903, edited by Remigium Ritzler and Pirminum Sefrin, Padua, Publisher «Il Messaggero di S. Antonio», 1878, p. 147, 163.
- Roberto Amadei Conquering Society: 1878-1914in Diocese of Bergamo, edited by Adriano Caprioli - Antonio Rimoldi - Luciano Vaccaro, Brescia, Editrice La Scuola 1988, pp. 259-267.
Guanellian sources
- Epistolary of Luigi Guanella, edited by the Centro Studi Guanelliani, E 1511, E 3155.
Photography
Angelo Marchesan, Pope Pius X in his life and in his word. Historical study of his old pupil, Einsiedeln, Benzinger & Co. 1905, p. 288.
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