Giovanni Minzoni was born to a middle-class family. He studied in seminary and in 1909 was ordained priest. The following year he was appointed Deputy Pastor in the town of Argenta (in Emilia-Romagna), which he left in 1912 to go to study in the Scuola Sociale in Bergamo, where he was awarded his degree. Admired because of his courage and his determination to cooperate and talk with farmers, after the beginning of World War I Father Minzoni was sent to the front between Italy and Austro-Hungary as an army chaplain.
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