Philipp Rinaldi

Philipp Rinaldi SDB (Italian Filippo) (born May 28, 1856 in Lu Monferrato , Piedmont , Italy , † December 5, 1931 in Turin ) was a religious priest and the third successor of St. Don Bosco as superior general of the Salesians of Don Bosco.

Life

Rinaldi met Don Bosco for the first time at the age of five and soon afterwards his father sent him to join him at the oratorio in Turin. In the autumn of 1877 he began his training as a priest in Sampierdarena in the late vocational seminar of the "Sons of Mary" , two years later he entered the novitiate of the Salesians of Don Bosco in San Benigno Canavese . He took his vows on August 13, 1880, and two years later, after completing all philosophical and theological studies, he was ordained a priest on December 23, 1882. Don Bosco then made him head of the late vocational seminar in Mathi , which he held for five years. Don Rua then appointed him director of the Salesian House in Sarriá in Spain, and in 1892 he became Spanish Provincial. After the death of the prefect general Don Belmonte, Don Rua brought him back to Turin. He held this office for 20 years. In 1917 he founded Don Bosco's volunteer service . On April 24, 1922, after the death of Don Paul Albera, he was elected the third successor to Don Bosco. From 1928 he increasingly suffered from cardiac insufficiency.

On April 29, 1990, Don Rinaldi was beatified by Pope John Paul II in Rome .

literature

• Renate M. Dafelmair:  Rinaldi, Filippo. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 18, Bautz, Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7 , Sp. 1200-1204.

Web links

• imagomundi.biz

predecessor	Office	successor
Paul Albera	Superior General of the Salesians of Don Bosco 1922 - 1931	Peter Ricaldone