A native of Gallarate, Varese, Italy, Clementina Pasta, a seamstress, married Enrico Gnocchi, a marmble cutter in 1894, and mothered three children, Andrea, Mario and Carlo.
Settling in San Colombano al Lambro, Milan, where her three sons were born, in 1895, she lost her husband in 1907, her son Mario in 1910 at the tender age of 10, and her eldest child, Andrea at 20 years of age in 1915.
Her youngest child, Carlo, was ordained to the priesthood in 1925. Military chaplain of the Alpini during the Second World War, after the tragic experience of the war, he strove to ease the wounds of suffering and misery created by the war, devoting himself to the "mutilated" and to children invalids of war and civilians, establishing for them a vast network of colleges in many cities of Italy.
Moving with her son in Milan in 1935, Clementina passed away on October 22, 1939, aged 72. Originally buried at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan, on January 21, 2007, her remains were reinterred at the Cemetery of Montesiro, where Don Carlo said his First Mass in 1925.
Settling in San Colombano al Lambro, Milan, where her three sons were born, in 1895, she lost her husband in 1907, her son Mario in 1910 at the tender age of 10, and her eldest child, Andrea at 20 years of age in 1915.
Her youngest child, Carlo, was ordained to the priesthood in 1925. Military chaplain of the Alpini during the Second World War, after the tragic experience of the war, he strove to ease the wounds of suffering and misery created by the war, devoting himself to the "mutilated" and to children invalids of war and civilians, establishing for them a vast network of colleges in many cities of Italy.
Moving with her son in Milan in 1935, Clementina passed away on October 22, 1939, aged 72. Originally buried at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan, on January 21, 2007, her remains were reinterred at the Cemetery of Montesiro, where Don Carlo said his First Mass in 1925.
A native of Gallarate, Varese, Italy, Clementina Pasta, a seamstress, married Enrico Gnocchi, a marmble cutter in 1894, and mothered three children, Andrea, Mario and Carlo.
Settling in San Colombano al Lambro, Milan, where her three sons were born, in 1895, she lost her husband in 1907, her son Mario in 1910 at the tender age of 10, and her eldest child, Andrea at 20 years of age in 1915.
Her youngest child, Carlo, was ordained to the priesthood in 1925. Military chaplain of the Alpini during the Second World War, after the tragic experience of the war, he strove to ease the wounds of suffering and misery created by the war, devoting himself to the "mutilated" and to children invalids of war and civilians, establishing for them a vast network of colleges in many cities of Italy.
Moving with her son in Milan in 1935, Clementina passed away on October 22, 1939, aged 72. Originally buried at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan, on January 21, 2007, her remains were reinterred at the Cemetery of Montesiro, where Don Carlo said his First Mass in 1925.
Settling in San Colombano al Lambro, Milan, where her three sons were born, in 1895, she lost her husband in 1907, her son Mario in 1910 at the tender age of 10, and her eldest child, Andrea at 20 years of age in 1915.
Her youngest child, Carlo, was ordained to the priesthood in 1925. Military chaplain of the Alpini during the Second World War, after the tragic experience of the war, he strove to ease the wounds of suffering and misery created by the war, devoting himself to the "mutilated" and to children invalids of war and civilians, establishing for them a vast network of colleges in many cities of Italy.
Moving with her son in Milan in 1935, Clementina passed away on October 22, 1939, aged 72. Originally buried at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan, on January 21, 2007, her remains were reinterred at the Cemetery of Montesiro, where Don Carlo said his First Mass in 1925.
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