1. Filippo Rinaldi 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.
12 Facts About Filippo Rinaldi
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Filippo Rinaldi founded the Secular Institute of Don Bosco Volunteers.
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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.
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Filippo Rinaldi's beatification was celebrated under Pope John Paul II in 1990.
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Filippo Rinaldi was born in mid-1856 in Lu Monferrato as the eighth child to the farmers Cristobolo Rinaldi and Antonia Brezza.
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Filippo Rinaldi started his educational studies at Mirabello Monferrato in which the Salesians of Don Bosco oversaw his education; the assistance for him there was Paolo Albera but Filippo Rinaldi later returned to his home despite Bosco making an effort to convince him to reconsider his decision.
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Filippo Rinaldi continued his life as a farmer but received some letters from Bosco and some books from Albera regarding religious vocations and the process of discernment.
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Filippo Rinaldi made his initial profession on 13 August 1880 and he later received his ordination to the priesthood on 23 December 1882 in the Ivrea Cathedral from Archbishop Davide Riccardi.
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Filippo Rinaldi was of the mind not to become a priest but his superiors saw potential in him and so asked him to pursue a path to the priesthood.
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Filippo Rinaldi helped in the establishment of the World Federations of Past-Pupils and he helped to organize the Salesian International Congress slated for 1911.
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Filippo Rinaldi died in mid-1931 in Turin and his remains were interred in Turin but later relocated in a Salesian-established basilica.
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Filippo Rinaldi had suffered from heart muscle weakness from 1928 to his death.