Desio

Desio ( Lombard language: Dès ) is a municipality in the province of Monza and Brianza with 40,937 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012).

1922 in Desio Monsignor, the founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation, born in 1857, Achille Ratti, the future Pope Pius XI.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Ottone Visconti (1207-1295), Archbishop and founder of the power of the Visconti family in Milan and Lombardy
  • Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (1857-1939), Pope Pius XI.
  • Luigi Giussani (1922-2005), priest and founder of the Catholic lay movement Communion and Liberation
  • Aurelio Milani ( born 1934 ), football player
  • Arienti Luigi ( b. 1937 ), cyclist
  • Francesca Galli ( born 1960 ), cyclist
  • Vito Mannone (* 1988), football player
  • Luca Caldirola (* 1991), football player
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