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BIOGRAPHY

LUIGI BELTRAME QUATTROCCHI
(1880 – 1951)

Luigi was born in Catania (Italy) on January 12, 1880, in a family
of Friulian origin. His father’s job, an official of the prefecture, required
the family to move several times, the last move being to Urbino. With
the departure of the Beltrame family from Catania, his uncle and aunt,
Luigi and Francesca Quattrocchi, childless, were deprived of the joy
of their nieces and nephews. So they proposed to their brother and
sister-in-law to raise little Luigi, who they were particularly fond of,
promising that they would have welcomed and loved him as a son but
without replacing the parents or depriving him of their love.

education

Luigi, followed his aunt and uncle to Ancona and then to Rome
where, after finishing high school, he enrolled in the Faculty of Law.
His uncle, rather strict, followed him in his studies, while his aunt tried
to soften her husband’s ways. Luigi received an education based on a
sense of responsibility and duty, surrounded by the love of his parents
and his aunt and uncle who, in agreement with his parents, adopted
him.
In 1902, he received his law degree and began his career as a
lawyer.
BIOGRAPHY the beauty of nature and traveling.
He enjoyed the great classics of literature, loved music, theater,

His lay spirit

A man of his time, Louis cultivated a secular spirit and kept his
distance from religion and the Church, but he was deeply honest and
respectful of the diversity of people. This led him to feel in harmony
with the young Maria who, in her simplicity, revealed to him a justice
that went beyond the books of law and spoke to him of intentions and
morality.