Roman Catholic Archbishop. Visco born Antonino Zecchini was the son of the local sexton. Joining the Society of Jesus in Gorizia at an early age on August 5, 1879, he was ordained priest in Krakow on June 25, 1893 after undergoing studies across Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Poland, France, Spain and his native Italy. Earning degrees in philosophy and theology, for over two decades he lectured canon law at the Centralseminar of Gorizia where he also served as spiritual director. During the same period he taught Croatian and Greek to the Jesuit students at the studentate of his Society in the same city. Chaplain of the hospital of Trieste during the Great War, carrying out various missions of assistance to refugees, following the bellic period, while still in Trieste as superior of the local Jesuit house, due to his vast knowledge of the Eastern countries and languages, he was named apostolic delegate to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Holy See, being raised on October 20, 1922 to the titular archbishopric see of Myra by Pope Pius XI, receiving his episcopal consecration from Cardinal Andreas Frühwirth OP. Being appointed in 1926 as the first apostolic internuncio in Latvia and on November 9, 1928 its first nuncio, Zecchini was highly esteemed in the country for his role in the maturation of relations between the Holy See and the Baltic States. On the occasion of his seventieth birthday he was decorated with the Order of the Three Stars first class by President Alberts Kviesis. Passing away shortly afterwards, in accordance with his wishes he was laid to rest in the land that he "loved so much" after being given a triumphant state funeral which saw the participation of one hundred thousand people, remaining to this day, the greatest state funeral that took place in Latvia in modern history. The Latvians had in mind back then the construction of a church to house specifically his remains but the outbreak of the Second World War and the economic difficulties that followed had the plan obliterated and his remains lie still at the Svētā Miķeļa Kapi of Latvia's capital. He was succeeded in office by Msgr. Antonino Arata of Piacenza.