1. Angelo Francesco Ramazzotti was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Patriarch of Venice.
20 Facts About Angelo Ramazzotti
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Angelo Ramazzotti established the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions in 1850.
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Angelo Ramazzotti became well known across Venice for his love of the people and for his careful attention and consideration of the social and pastoral issues that faced the archdiocese.
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Angelo Ramazzotti brought to Venice his sense of calmness and resolve in tending to the social needs of the poor and to all people in general as a means of rekindling the Christian virtues in Venice.
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Angelo Francesco Ramazzotti was born in Milan on 3 August 1800 as the second of two sons to Giuseppe Ramazzotti and Giulia Maderna.
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Angelo Ramazzotti received confirmation in October 1806 and felt his religious vocation which awakened in him a desire to become part of the priesthood.
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Angelo Ramazzotti studied in Pavia where he obtained a doctorate in both canon law and civil law on 10 August 1823.
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Angelo Ramazzotti practiced law until 1826 when he went to become a priest.
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Angelo Ramazzotti received the minor orders on 22 December 1826 and 21 December 1827.
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Angelo Ramazzotti later received the subdiaconate on 14 March 1829 and the diaconate on 4 April 1829.
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Angelo Ramazzotti was ordained to the priesthood on 13 June 1829.
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Angelo Ramazzotti became a member of the Oblate Missionaries of Rho after his ordination.
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Angelo Ramazzotti was elected as the order's superior-general three times.
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Angelo Ramazzotti wanted to refuse the appointment but accepted in obedience to the pontiff.
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Angelo Ramazzotti devoted himself to various charitable works and looked after the needs of the people.
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Angelo Ramazzotti visited the sick in hospitals and created institutions to shelter orphans and abandoned children.
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Angelo Ramazzotti founded the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions in 1850 and was later promoted as the Patriarch of Venice in 1858.
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Angelo Ramazzotti made an appeal to Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli on the grounds on his financial condition that he could not afford the expenses for the cardinalate.
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Angelo Ramazzotti died on 24 September 1861 in Crespano del Grappa where he had gone in order to recover from his ailments.
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Angelo Ramazzotti's remains were later transferred to Milan on 3 March 1957.