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Giovenale Ancina
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16th centuryitalian
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Giovanni Giovenale Ancina (19 October 1545 – 30 August 1604) was an Italian bishop who belonged to the Congregation of the Oratory, as well being a scholar and music composer. He was known also as an orator. He was beatified by the Catholic Church in the late 19th century. Ancina was born on 19 October 1545, into a wealthy family of Fossano, in the Duchy of Savoy, now the Province of Cuneo in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. He studied at Montpellier, Padua, Mondavi, and Turin; and graduated with degrees in both medicine and philosophy. He became an accomplished musician and man of letters. Given his talents, interests and connections, Ancina had a wide variety of career options. Initially he became a physician and then, in 1574, he accompanied his kinsman, Count Mandrucci Ancina, to Rome as the Count's personal physician. There Ancina attended the lectures in theology given by Robert Bellarmine, S.J. He also began to participate in the activities of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.