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Father Luigi Crispolti was born in Todi on 14 th 1815.
The
story of the priest y embraces the century XIX. The pastoral action of Luigi
had fulcrum and synthesis in the works of charity. In 1841 he opened an of
charity for poor girls, because the situation of the young abandoned women
and orphan was one of the problems more felt of the city. In the orphanage
Father Luigi organized moments of education, starting to the job and
furnished a daily meal. In the August of 1847 he inaugurated an orphanage
for poor boys in the Building “Corporali” in the street lorenzo Leoni.
At
the beginnings pupils were only 12 but the number grew very soon. The
purpose of Father Luigi was since the beginning to teach to the abandoned
boys a work that gave them the possibility to insert themselves in the world
of the job in a good way and therefore in the society. The evening schools
were integral part of its work. The institute for boys, called "of the
Artigianelli" was a real laboratory of handicraft activity and reached also
good levels. In 1867, for example, the students participated in the
Universal Exposure in Paris and they also received some prizes .In the
December of the 1883 Father Luigi Crispolti died. Father Luigi Crispolti has
incessantly testified the faith in the charity ,working for the abandoned
people, changing them in resources for the city.