THE LIFE

  

BIRTH AND FIRST YEARS OF LIFE IN THE FAMILY

EDUCATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD

ORDINATION AND THE FIRST YEARS AS A PRIEST

MILITARY SERVICE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR 

FIRST NATIONAL TASK

IN THE DIPLOMATIC BODY OF THE HOLY SEE

PATRIARCH IN VENICE

ELECTION TO THE PONTIFICATE

PILGRIMAGE TO LORETO AND ASSISI

THE COUNCIL

INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR PEACE

AUDIENCE WITH THE SON-IN-LAW OF KRUSCEV

PACEM IN TERRIS

THE DEATH

THE BEATIFICATION

HIS BODY

CANONIZATION

  

In 1921 he was called to Rome as president for Italy of the Central Council of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith and here he nourished his love for foreign missions influenced also by contact with Blessed Father Paolo Manna, Superior General of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME ). He had as his program: "The whole Church for the whole world" and was one of the greatest animators of the missionary cause of the century.