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Piscetta, Luigi

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PISCETTA, LUIGI. - Theologian, b. at Comignano (Novara) on 12 Feb. 1858, d. at Turin on 25 Oct. 1925. He professed in the Society of St. Francis de Sales (Salesians) from 17 July 1875; priest from 19 Oct. 1880; graduated in theology in 1880 and aggregated in 1885 to the Doctoral College of the Faculty of Theology of the Metropolitan Seminary of Turin, where he taught moral theology for fully 40 years.

In 1898 he published the highly esteemed Elementa theologiae moralis, which were later updated and completed in the years 1923 ff. with the Sacramentaria by his confrere Fr.

Andrea Gennaro.

Bibliography

BIBL.: D. M. Prümmer, Manuale theologiae moralis, I, 6th-7th ed., Freiburg i. Br. 1931, p. xxx.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX (1952), col. 1571.

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Gennaro, Andrea. “Piscetta, luigi.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 1571. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/piscetta-luigi.

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Gennaro, Andrea. “Piscetta, luigi.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1571. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/piscetta-luigi.

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@incollection{ec9_piscetta_luigi,
  author    = {Gennaro, Andrea},
  title     = {Piscetta, luigi},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IX},
  pages     = {1571},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1952},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/piscetta-luigi}
}

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