Don Oreste Benzi Foundation

all year

Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.

Exhibitions

On the occasion of Don Oreste Benzi's birth centenary, a place dedicated to the priest from Rimini opens in the heart of the city where it is possible to learn about and explore the life and thought of the ‘priest with the worn cassock’. On display inside the premises are some photographs of ‘don Oreste's’ life, kindly granted by Rimini photographer Riccardo Ghinelli. It is also possible to leaf through books, brochures and information material. 

Info

Place: 
Rimini, Corso Giovanni XXIII, 8
Entrance: 
free. It is advisable, before going on site, to notify by e-mail to miriamfebei@apg23.org

Additional information


Don Oreste Benzi was born in San Clemente on 7 September 1925. He is for everyone the priest of the poor, the desperate and the marginalised. In the 1960s, he founded the Pope John XXIII Community with which, starting from his home town of Rimini, he opened numerous shelters in Italy and abroad. He fought to give every child a family, to save young people from the tragedy of drug addiction, to foster the Rom and Sinti people, to free women slaves to prostitution, for an alternative to prison, for peace: in every situation where human rights are violated Don Oreste rushes in. For his vocation Benzi is recognised as a servant of God and work is underway for his beatification process. Benzi is buried in the Monumental Cemetery of Rimini.

The ‘Don Oreste Benzi Foundation’, established in Rimini in 2017, aims to promote, deepen and foster the study of his thought, life and works