BIXIO, GIUSEPPE. – Missionary, brother of the Garibaldian general Nino. Born in Genoa on 23 May 1819, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1838. Professor of rhetoric in Cagliari, when the revolution of 1848 expelled the Jesuits from Sardinia, he went to the United States and worked until 1855 in Maryland, and thereafter in California. The Civil War (1860) recalled him to the eastern states, where he served as chaplain among the soldiers, not without running grave dangers because of suspicions of espionage. After the war he resumed his pastoral duties in California (apart from one year in Australia, 1878–79), first at S. José, then at S. Clara, where he died on 3 March 1889. Distressed by the attitude adopted by his brother, he had a fervent desire to compensate, through his apostolic zeal, for the harm he had caused the Church.
BIXIO, GIUSEPPE
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“BIXIO, GIUSEPPE.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), p. 972. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/bixio-giuseppe.