Santiago Bovisio

Santiago Bovisio once said: "After 2000 people will start to talk about me." In 2003, Fabiana Mastrangelo published his first biography: Don Santiago, Vida y Obra del Señor Santiago Bovisio, in Argentina and Bolivia, to mark the 100th anniversary of Bovisio's birth. The book was translated into Portuguese and published in Brazil in 2006. The book sold out in both languages and was presented in various provinces of Argentina and countries of the Americas and Europe. Numerous cultural media outlets and figures wrote about the book: "This book is a work in favour of the development of modern humanity." Beatriz Baudizzone, President of the Argentine Society of Writers, Mendoza. "The author will watch as this offspring of her spirit walks around the world, no doubt without her help because it has a strength of its own." Sara Carubin, writer. "Señor Santiago Bovisio's personality and national and international reach in the cultural and spiritual sphere clearly justifies this author's work, spreading his message." Declaration of Cultural Interest by the Deliberating Council of the City of Mendoza. "Don Santiago, with its clear and eloquent language, gives […] a universal teaching for all human beings who, on different paths, wish to live according to the spiritual ideas they long to attain." El Nuevo día newspaper, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, 29 September 2003, on the commemoration in this city of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Santiago Bovisio. "The message of the book Don Santiago is still valid because it seeks to awaken humanity's charitable conscience. A better society is built with better individuals." Sylvina Balmaceda, Mendoza. Director of the Manuel Belgrano Public Municipal Library. "The teacher Santiago Bovisio. An immigrant, a history, a book." The teacher who set off from Vigevano" […] "Biography of a Vigevano man with honours abroad." Cover of the newspaper L'informatore, Vigevano, Italy, 2006. "The book shows us that Don Santiago's goal was Human Development […] This man possessed from a young age the spiritual capacity that allowed him to build his work." Lily Sosa de Newton, Buenos Aires. Full Member of the National History Academy and Outstanding Culture Figure of the City of Buenos Aires. "Don Santiago is the way into a world that makes us aware of our possibilities [...] This reading enriches us. It is a history of deep spiritual poetics to be discovered." Dr. Alicia Duo, Los Andes newspaper, Mendoza, 2006. "Don Santiago was a teacher in the broadest and deepest sense of the word. He transmitted a universal teaching for all human beings who, along diverse paths, wish to live according to the more spiritual, inclusive and comprehensive ideal they long to attain." Writer and journalist Mercedes Fernández.