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Luigi Piccardo
  • 07/09/1845: born in Verazza (Genova)
  • 19/03/1870 Ordained priest
  • 30/04/1870 Arrived at the Patriarchate
  • 1871 Parish priest of Jifna until 1876
  • 1876 Parish priest of Taybeh 
  • 1879 First parish priest of Shefamar
  • 1888 Parish priest of Salt (until 1895)
  • 19/04/1895 Canon of the Holy Sepulchre
  • 1895 Parish Priest of Beit Jala
  • 15/03/1902 Elected Titular Bishop of Caphernaüm and auxiliary (57 years old)
  • 19/04/1902 Vicar General
  • 27/041902 Consecrated at Concathedral by Patriarch Piavi, assisted by the Custos of the Holy Land and a Maronite Archbishop
  • 09/06/1912 Commandatore della corona
  • 25/10- 13/11/1909 Pastoral visit to Transjordan with Mgr. Perrin
  • 18/11/1917 Taken from Jerusalem by the Turks while very ill
  • 02/12/1917 Dies in Damascus, aged 72, two days after his arrival, deported by the Turks. Death among the Franciscans. Buried in the crypt of the parish church