Filippo Rinaldi | |
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Priest | |
Born | Lu Monferrato, Alessandria, Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia | 28 May 1856
Died | 5 December 1931 Turin, Kingdom of Italy | (aged 75)
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
Beatified | 29 April 1990, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
Feast | 5 December |
Attributes | Priest's attire |
Patronage | Wrocław |
Filippo Rinaldi (28 May 1856 – 5 December 1931) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Salesians of Don Bosco; he served as the third Rector Major for the order from 1922 until his death in 1931. He founded the Secular Institute of Don Bosco Volunteers.[1] Rinaldi was close friends since his childhood to Giovanni Bosco and Paolo Albera and it was Bosco who guided Rinaldi who was torn in his adolescence between the farming life and the religious life. The order held him in high esteem from the outset and noted the potential within him as well as seeing the charism of Bosco encompassed in Rinaldi.[2][3]
Rinaldi's beatification was celebrated under Pope John Paul II in 1990.