Carlos Crespi Croci
Servant of God Carlo Crespi Croci (Legnano, Italy, May 29, 1891 – Cuenca, Ecuador, April 30, 1982) was an Italian priest of the Pious Society of St. Francis de Sales.[1][2][3][4]
Biography
Family
Carlo Crespi was born in Legnano on May 29, 1891, the third of thirteen children in the household of Daniele Crespi, a worker on a local estate, and his wife Luisa Croci.
First years
In 1907 he began the novitiate in Foglizzo and between 1909 and 1911 he studied philosophy in Valsalice, where he met and was a classmate of the priest René Ziggiotti, future successor of Don Bosco. On Sunday, January 28, 1917, he was ordained a priest.
In 1921, Crespi graduated in natural sciences with a specialization in botany from the University of Padua; after three months he also graduated in piano and composition at the Cesare Pollini Conservatory in Padua.
Priesthood
He lived 60 years as a missionary in Ecuador, especially with indigenous people from the Ecuadorian Amazon. In addition to his religious work, he devoted himself to education, cinema, anthropology and archaeology.[5] He is one of the first researchers of the Cueva de los Tayos, in Ecuador.[6]
Legacy
Crespi was one of the precursors of Ecuadorian cinema with his documentary Los invincibles shuaras del Alto Amazonas (1926). The images were recovered and preserved years after they were filmed.
His main work was fulfilled in Cuenca, where his memory is kept in monuments and in the name of different institutions.
Sainthood
He is in the process of beatification by the Catholic Church.[7]
Works
- Carlo Crespi (1926). The Invincible Shuaras of the Upper Amazon (Documentary).[8] Ecuador: Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, UNESCO.
Honours
- Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic — Rome, 7 December 1981[9]
- Doctorate Honoris Causa Post mortem: "For his contribution in the religious, social, cultural and scientific fields" — Salesian Polytechnic University, April 30, 2001[10]
External links
- Official website of his beatification cause
References
- ↑ "Pope Francis recognizes heroic virtues of 5 women and a priest - Vatican News". www.vaticannews.va. 2023-03-23. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
- ↑ "Vaticano – Avanza la causa de canonización del Siervo de Dios, Carlo Crespi, SDB". www.infoans.org (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-03-22.
- ↑ "Carlos Crespi Croci". Salesianos (in português). Retrieved 2023-03-22.
- ↑ "Blog | Publicado Decreto de Venerabilidade do Servo de Deus Carlo Crespi, SDB". www.salesianos.br. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
- ↑ "Padre Carlo Crespi e gli Invincibili". Fortunadrago.it (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-03-22.
- ↑ AVB. "38 años de partida del padre Crespi - Diario El Mercurio" (in español). Retrieved 2023-03-22.
- ↑ "El Vaticano – El Siervo de Dios Carlo Crespi hacia la Venerabilidad". www.infoans.org (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-03-22.
- ↑ Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgOHytpMINM
- ↑ "insigniti".
- ↑ Aman, Robert (2012-12-30). "ISSN 1390-3837, UPS-Ecuador, No. 17, julio-diciembre 2012, pp. 51-68 En la lengua del Otro: la Unión Europea y el diálogo intercultural como instrumento de exclusión". Universitas (17): 51. doi:10.17163/uni.n17.2012.02. ISSN 1390-8634.
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