CIRIACI, AUGUSTO. - Born in Rome on 10 Aug. 1889, died there on 3 Sept. 1936.

He was active in the ranks of Catholic Action from his earliest years, first as an apostle in his own milieu in the Testaccio district of Rome itself, then as secretary of the Roman youth federation, and from 1913 as general secretary of the Society of Italian Catholic Youth, under the presidency of Paolo Pericoli. When in 1923 Pius XI founded the Men's Union of Catholic Action, he chose C. as its first president, and in 1929 he placed him at the head of the whole Italian Catholic Action as general president.

To him are due: the "Day of the Catholic daily newspaper," to summon Catholics every year to support the Catholic press; the founding of the Catholic Cinema Center (C. C. C.); the Peregrinatio ad Petri sedem as the coordinating body for Catholic pilgrimages to Rome.

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BIBL.: Obituary in L'Assistente ecclesiastico, 6 (1936), pp. 537-59; In memoria di A. C., nel trigesimo della sua morte, in Bull. ufficiale dell'A. C. I., 14 (1936), pp. 217-40; A. Rovigatti, A. C., Rome 1936; L'Osservatore romano, nos. 3-4, Sept. 1936.

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Ciriaci, Augusto

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