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Carlo Gnocchi (25 October 1902 – 28 February 1956) was an Italian priest, educator and writer.He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.. During World War II, he was a military chaplain of the Alpini, the elite mountain warfare soldiers of the Italian Army, and after the tragic experience of the war, he strove to ease the wounds of suffering and misery created by the war.
The town hosted the Institute for Invalids where Don Carlo Gnocchi founded the Federation for Mutilated Children, in 1952 began the Juvenile Foundation, today known as the Don Carlo Gnocchi – ONLUS Foundation. The bird observatory Osservatorio Ornitologico di Arosio was established in 1710. It has a museum.
The film describes the life of Father Carlo Gnocchi, and Italian priest who dedicated himself to minister to wounded and dying soldiers during World War Two, and the war's victims in Italy. Gnocchi volunteered to be the military Chaplain on the battle front, following which, he started a foundation to aid the children victims of the war. [4]
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
The building has passed through various hands. The widow of Cagnola married the Marquis D'Adda Salvaterra. After the Second World War it was acquired by the Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, which served disabled children, including over the decades those mutilated by war, polio, or cerebral palsy.
From Boeing's turbulence and a catastrophic hurricane, to Donald Trump's election victory, "Sunday Morning" host Jane Pauley looks back at key events of a year that was monumental.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy aim to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget by July 4, 2026. They've said they'll fire federal employees, "delete" agencies, and publicize all of their work.
Gnocchi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Carlo Gnocchi (1902–1956), Italian priest, educator and writer; Gene Gnocchi (born 1955), Italian television presenter, comedian and footballer; Giovanni Pietro Gnocchi, Italian painter, active during the late 16th-century in Lombardy in a late-Renaissance or Mannerist styles