 Together with his brother Francesco and his two sisters , Giuseppina and Elisabetta , he grew up in the <unk> district in the centre of Rome . Soon after the family had moved to Via <unk> in 1880 he began school at the convent of the French Sisters of Divine Providence in the Piazza Fiammetta . The family worshipped at Chiesa Nuova . Eugenio and the other children made their First Communion at this church and Eugenio served there as an altar boy from 1886 . In 1886 too he was sent to the private school of Professor Giuseppe Marchi , close to the Piazza Venezia . In 1891 Pacelli 's father sent Eugenio to the Liceo Ennio Quirino Visconti Institute , a state school situated in what had been the Collegio Romano , the premier Jesuit university in Rome . 
