1. Giovanni Panico was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
16 Facts About Giovanni Panico
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Giovanni Panico served as nuncio to several countries during his career, and was created a cardinal in 1962.
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Giovanni Panico then went to Rome, where he lived in the Leonine College, a residence for students from southern Italy at the Gregorian University, then studied at the Pontifical Roman Seminary.
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Giovanni Panico was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Basilio Pompili on 14 March 1919, in the Lateran Basilica.
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Giovanni Panico then attended the Pontifical Lateran University until 1922, obtaining a doctorate in theology in 1919, and later a doctorate in canon and civil law in 1922.
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Giovanni Panico then did pastoral work in his home town from 1922 to 1923, and was raised to the rank of Privy Chamberlain of His Holiness on 25 August 1923.
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Giovanni Panico was created a Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on 20 August 1934, and later awarded the Legion of Honour by France.
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On 17 October 1935, Giovanni Panico was appointed Apostolic Delegate to Australia and New Zealand and Titular Archbishop of Justiniana Prima by Pope Pius XI.
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Giovanni Panico officiated at the Eucharistic Congress of 1938 which was held in Newcastle, New South Wales.
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Giovanni Panico presided over similar events in 1939 in Wellington, New Zealand, to mark the centenary of the Catholic Church in New Zealand, and of the nation itself.
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In 1948, Giovanni Panico opened Holy Name Seminary in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Giovanni Panico traveled to New Zealand with Jesuit priests who were to staff it.
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Giovanni Panico rushed into the cabin in his nightshirt and asked what was happening.
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Giovanni Panico was named nuncio to Peru on 28 September 1948, and Apostolic Delegate to Canada on 14 November 1953.
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Giovanni Panico then founded the Cardinale Giovanni Panico Hospital in his native Tricase, where he soon died at age 67.
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Giovanni Panico was originally buried in his family's plot in the town cemetery, but, in keeping with his request, his remains were later moved to the crypt of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the same town.