Giovanni Bisio, the founder of our presence in Brazil in 1937, was born in Vicolo Maiola near the Church of S. Rocco al Ponte in Garessio (Cuneo) on February 12, 1903. After completing his elementary classes in his native town, he entered the Episcopal Seminary of Mondovì. He received his clerical vestments on January 17, 1918.
At the end of the first year of philosophy, during an illness that his mother considered a punishment for her opposition to her son’s intention to depart for the missions, he obtained her consent to join the Consolata Missionaries. In those years, Mondovì was a hotbed of many missionary vocations. Many students of the Diocesan Seminary joined the Consolata missionaries. The Diocesan Bishop himself, Msgr. G. B. Ressia, a fellow student of Can. Giuseppe Allamano, Founder of the Consolata Missionary Institute, did not oppose this depletion of students in his Seminary in favor of the new missionary Institute in Turin.
We present this short profile of Father Giovanni Bisio.
(Fr Pietro Trabucco, IMC, Castelnuovo don Bosco)
