Alessandro Gavazzi

Alessandro Gavazzi ( born March 21, 1809 in Bologna, † January 9, 1889 in Rome) was Italian theologian and opponent of the Roman hierarchy.

Alessandro Gavazzi joined with 16 years in the Order of the Clerici regulares of St. Barnabas, and later became a professor of rhetoric in Naples. Because of its liberal direction in 1840 moved to a subordinate spiritual place in the Papal States, he was by Pius IX. Selecting one of the most active men motion and entered with papal approval as a military chaplain in a Marching against the Austrians Freikorps. When Radetzky Milan had reconquered, Gavazzi was forced to flee, but was called back as August 8, 1848 in Bologna, a revolt against the Pope had broken out, the depression also succeeded.

After the fall of Rome, he went abroad and agitated especially zealous in England, Scotland and North America against the papacy, especially through his magazine " Gavazzi Free Word ". In 1860 he was with Garibaldi in Naples and took the train to Sicily in 1861 to participate. Since 1870 he lived in England again and agitated since eager for the establishment of a free Italian church. In 1861 he published his memoirs as well as a selection of his speeches.

Alessandro Gavazzi