BIXIO, GIUSEPPE. - Missionary, brother of the Garibaldian general Nino. Born in Genoa on 23 May 1819, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1838. A professor of rhetoric at Cagliari, when the revolution of 1848 drove the Jesuits out of Sardinia, he went to the United States, and worked until 1855 in Maryland, then in California. The Civil War (1860) called him back to the Eastern States, where he took on the duties of chaplain among the soldiers, not without running very serious dangers on suspicion of espionage. After the war he resumed in California (except for one year in Australia, 1878-79) his pastoral duties at San José, then at Santa Clara, where he died on 3 March 1889. Grieved by the stance taken by his brother, he had a keen desire to compensate, by his apostolic zeal, for the harm the latter had done to the Church.
Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. II, 1949 Missions Missionaries and missiologists
Bixio, Giuseppe
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Lamalle, Edmondo. “Bixio, giuseppe.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, coll. 1684–1685. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/bixio-giuseppe.
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Lamalle, Edmondo. “Bixio, giuseppe.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 1684–1685. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/bixio-giuseppe.
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author = {Lamalle, Edmondo},
title = {Bixio, giuseppe},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {1684--1685},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/bixio-giuseppe}
}
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