Giovanni Semeria

Life

Giovanni Semeria was an Italian preacher and author. He was one of the most high-profile representatives of Italian Catholicism during the early decades of the twentieth century. In 1912 he founded the Giovine Orchestra Genovese. Probably his more defining legacy is the Opera nazionale per il Mezzogiorno d'Italia which he set up with Giovanni Minozzi to create and operate a chain of orphanages and associated educational facilities, addressing an urgent necessity created by the slaughter of the First World War.

From Wikipedia, “Giovanni Semeria”, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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