About Andrea Gallo
Don Andrea Gallo (18 July 1928 – 22 May 2013) was an Italian priest. He was the founder and leader of the Community of San Benedetto al Porto. He often called himself a "priest of the sidewalk", referring to his activity of helping poor and needy people. == Biography == Andrea Gallo was born on 18 July 1928 in Genoa. He was drawn to spirituality of the Salesians of John Bosco as a child, and entered their novitiate of Varazze in 1948. In 1953, after studying philosophy in Rome, Gallo was asked to leave Italy for missions, and he was sent to São Paulo, Brazil, where he attended theology courses. Since the Brazilian dictatorship forced him to return to Italy, he went to Ivrea in 1954 to continue his studies and was ordained as a priest on 1 July 1959. In 1960, Gallo was sent as a chaplain to the training ship Garaventa, trying to introduce a different setting in teaching and to replace the repressive methods with an education based upon trust and freedom. After three years, Gallo was moved to another position, and in 1964, he decided to leave the Salesians and asked his superiors to incardinate him in the Archdiocese of Genoa. After that, Giuseppe Siri, a cardinal and archbishop of Genoa at that time, sent him to Capraia as the chaplain of the prison.
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