In 1972 , he decided to join the religious institute of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus ; his studies brought him to move first to Florence , then to Venegono Inferiore ( in the Province of Varese ) and finally to Chicago , where he graduated from Catholic Theological Union and served in the St. Ludmila Parish . After having experienced missionary work with impoverished Native Americans in South Dakota and later , for one year , in Baja California ( Mexico ) , he was ordained a priest on September 28 , 1980 in his native Padua . He was assigned to a parish in Naples but , following the 1980 Irpinia earthquake , he moved to San Mango sul Calore to assist the victims ; he returned to Naples in 1981 where he organised one of the first pacific demonstrations against camorra . The following year he moved to Troia in Apulia , where he acted as a focal point for vocational groups
1980 Irpinia earthquake
1980 Irpinia earthquake
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