1. Giuseppe Antonio Tovini was an Italian banker and lawyer who became a member of the Secular Franciscan Order.
11 Facts About Giuseppe Tovini
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Giuseppe Tovini was one of the founder of Banca di Valle Camonica, Banca San Paolo di Brescia and Banco Ambrosiano.
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Giuseppe Tovini was beatified in 1998 after a miracle was found to have been attributed to his intercession.
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Giuseppe Antonio Tovini was born in 1841 as the first of seven children to Mose Tovini and Rosa Malaguzzi.
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Giuseppe Tovini went to high school in Bergamo from 1852 to 1858, and later graduated from the University of Pavia in August 1865.
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Giuseppe Tovini then moved to Brescia in 1867 to become a lawyer and obtained all the appropriate qualifications to become a lawyer in 1868.
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Giuseppe Tovini later married Emilia Corbolani on 6 January 1875 and they went on to have a total of ten children.
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From 1871 to 1874, Tovini served as the mayor of Cividate Camuno, his birthplace.
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Giuseppe Tovini became a member of the Secular Franciscan Order and was among the founders of a Catholic newspaper which published its first edition in 1878 after its founding on 3 April.
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Giuseppe Tovini founded Banca di Valle Camonica in 1872, Banca San Paolo di Brescia in Brescia in 1888, Banco Ambrosiano in Milan in 1896.
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Giuseppe Tovini died in 1897 with a reputation for personal holiness.