Carlos Crespi Croci

Carlo Crespi Croci was born in Legnano, in Lombardy, on 29 May 1891. A Salesian priest with degrees in natural sciences and music from Padua, he left for Ecuador in 1923 and spent nearly sixty years in Cuenca. There he founded a school of arts and crafts, a school for poor children and a school for training missionaries, and assembled a vast collection of archaeological objects. He died in Cuenca on 30 April 1982, and Pope Francis declared him venerable in 2023.

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• DocumentaryLos invencibles shuaras del Alto AmazonasCarlos Crespi Croci · 1927Cinema