- 09.02.1889 : Birth in San Piero Agliana (Pistoia)
- 19.07.1914: Ordination to the priesthood
- 1908: joined the Franciscans
- 1922: teacher at the college of Aleppo
- 06.03.1937: Custos of the Holy Land
- 11.11.1949 : Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
- 27.12.1949 : Episcopal Consecration in the church of Saint Anthony
- 12.1960: Member of the Central Commission at the Vatican II Council
- 06.1967: appointed to the Synod by Pope Paul VI
- 25.11.1970: death in Jerusalem, caused by a heart attack
- 26.11.1970: Burial in the pro-cathedral