Roman Catholic Cardinal. Bosco Marengo born Pio Boggiani entered the Order of Preachers in Chieri on September 15, 1879, receiving the religious name of Tommaso, and frequenting the Theological Faculty of Graz in Austria, was ordained priest there on July 22, 1885. Rendering missionary work in Constantinople, in 1891 he was elected prior of the Dominican priory of Ragusa, Sicily, later being named regent of the Philosophical College of Graz in 1898 and pastor of the parish of Santa Maria di Castello of Genoa in 1900. Faculty member of the Seminary of Genoa and apostolic visitor to twenty-three dioceses in Northern Italy, he served as apostolic administrator of Adria, of which see he was shortly thereafter elected ordinary by Pope Pius X on October 31, 1908, receiving his episcopal consecration on the following November 22 inside the church of the house of recovery of the English Sisters on Monte Celio in Rome from Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val. Promoted to titular archbishopric see of Edessa di Osröene and named apostolic delegate in México on January 10, 1912, back in Italy he acted as apostolic administrator of archdiocese of Genoa before being named assessor of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation and secretary of the Sacred College of Cardinals on July 7, 1914. Secretary of the conclave of 1914 that elected Benedict XV to the Papacy, the same Pontiff created him cardinal priest in the consistory of December 4, 1916 with the title of Ss. Quirico e Giulitta. Transferred to the metropolitan see of Genoa on March 10, 1919, he resigned the pastoral government of the see in 1921 moving anew to Rome. Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals between June 20, 1927 and December 17, 1928, opting for the order of cardinal bishops and the suburbicarian see of Porto e Santa Rufina on July 15, 1929 he went on the serve as chancellor of the Holy Roman Church from March 13, 1933 until his death, receiving 'in commendam' the title of San Lorenzo in Damaso. Passing away following a lengthy illness in Rome, his remains were transported to his native Bosco Marengo and laid to rest there inside the local parish church.