ALESSANDRO GAVAZZI
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He was greatly concerned that if the Pope were allowed to stay in the Vatican, he would again seek temporal power which was what the revolution was all about.
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Alessandro Gavazzi was an Italian preacher and patriot. He at first became a monk (1825), and attached himself to the Barnabites at Naples, where he afterwards (1829) acted as professor of rhetoric. He left the church, and became best known as a provocative speaker against Catholicism, touring Europe and the United States. Protests against him broke out in Canada in 1853, causing numerous deaths in the Gavazzi Riots.
