Formation
He met Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli in 1937, who left a major impression on him and facilitated his entry in the seminary. March 25, 1944, he was ordained to the priesthood. During the war years he taught religion in a secondary school in Turin. After the war, he studied at the Pontifical International Athenaeum Angelicum, the future Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome and completed his doctorate in Sacred Theology there in 1947 with a dissertation entitled Il cristianesimo perfezione dell'uomo.,ref>http://freeforumzone.leonardo.it/lofi/Dedicato-al-grande-e-venerabile-padre-Raimondo-Spiazzi-O-P-/D8350616.html Accessed 2-8-2013
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