Alessandro Gavazzi
Italian Roman Catholic priest / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alessandro Gavazzi (21 March 1809 ā 9 January 1889) was an Italian preacher and patriot. He at first became a monk (1825), and attached himself to the Barnabites at Naples, where he afterwards (1829) acted as professor of rhetoric.[1] He left the church, and became best known as a provocative speaker against Catholicism, touring Europe and the United States. Protests against him broke out in Canada in 1853, causing numerous deaths in the Gavazzi Riots.[2][3]