Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore—often called “the Cattolica”—began with a post–World War I vision rooted in Catholic scholarship, and it was formally founded in 1921. The idea took shape around 1870, but a decisive moment came in September 1918, when Giuseppe Toniolo, before dying, urged Father Agostino Gemelli and his team to found the university after the war. In 1919, Gemelli and collaborators Ludovico Necchi, Francesco Olgiati, Armida Barelli, and Ernesto Lombardo founded the Istituto Giuseppe Toniolo di Studi Superiori. The project moved from aspiration to institution on 24 June 1920, when the institute was legally recognized by a decree signed by Minister of Education Benedetto Croce; at the same time, Pope Benedict XV confirmed the university’s ecclesiastical status. Today, Cattolica is a private Catholic research university with its main campus in Milan and satellite campuses in Brescia, Piacenza, Cremona, and Rome. …

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