BOETTO, PIETRO. - Jesuit, cardinal, archbishop of Genoa, b. at Vigone in Piedmont on 19 May 1871, d. at Genoa on 31 Jan. 1946, rightly proclaimed "defensor civitatis."
Having entered the Society of Jesus at the age of 17, he was later rector of the colleges of Genoa and Cuneo, provincial of the Turin province, visitor of the provinces of Aragon and Castile, procurator general, provincial of the Roman province and assistant for Italy of his Order. Raised to the purple in the consistory of Dec. 1935 by Pius XI, he carried on his activity in the Curia as a member of many Congregations. In 1938 he was elected archbishop of Genoa, which he governed from 1938 to 1946 in one of the gravest periods of its history.
In the harsh events of the German occupation, he succeeded in averting reprisals, in freeing victims, in relieving the city from its straits, until he was able, through direct negotiations, to avert the destruction of the port and of the installations already mined, and the shelling of the city, and to induce the commander of the German occupation forces, General Meinhold, to surrender (25 Apr. 1945). Among the works carried out by him, the artistic arrangement of the sanctuary of Nostra Signora della Guardia on Mount Figona should be remembered. The municipality, in recognition of his merits, solemnly conferred upon him honorary citizenship; and in the Cathedral a funeral monument was erected to him.
Bibliography4 worksDocumenti del C.L.N. per la Liguria, Genoa 1947; E. Trinchieri, Contributo alla storia dell'insurrezione di Genova nel 1945, ibid. 1948; A.
BIBL.:Documenti del C.L.N. per la Liguria, Genoa 1947; E. Trinchieri, Contributo alla storia dell'insurrezione di Genova nel 1945, ibid. 1948; A. Lanz, Il card. P. B. S. I., arcivescovo di Genova (1871-1946), Isola del Liri 1949; G. Siri, Commemorazione del card. P. B. S. I., in Riv. dioc. di Genova, (1949).
Lanz, Arnaldo Maria. “Boetto, pietro.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1753. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/boetto-pietro.
MLA
Lanz, Arnaldo Maria. “Boetto, pietro.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1753. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/boetto-pietro.
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@incollection{ec2_boetto_pietro,
author = {Lanz, Arnaldo Maria},
title = {Boetto, pietro},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {1753},
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/boetto-pietro}
}
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