Costante Maltoni
Italian diplomat (1915-1980)
Costante Maltoni (14 February 1915 – 1 February 1980) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.
Biography
Costante Maltoni was born on 14 February 1915 in Forlimpopoli, in Italy.
From an early age he was the author of popular prose passages, poems and essays, some of which were published in the magazine "Fiera letteraria".
After completing his humanistic studies (gymnasium and classical high school) respectively in the seminaries of Bertinoro and Bologna, where he adds the four years in theology, Costante Maltoni was ordained a priest on June 26, 1938 in Forlimpopoli in the Church of S. Pietro.
Later he attended the Pontifical Lateran University and graduated in utruque iure in 1942.
Loyality to the anti-fascist resistance
In the meantime, he held various local positions, and during the passage of the war front in Forlimpopoli he was among the prominent exponents of the Resistance.
Together with the Marquis Gianraniero Paulucci and Silvio Corbari, in his home in Via Monte Grappa in Forlimpopoli he elaborates the insurrectionary communiqué to the Italians entitled "Movimento Patriottico Giovane Italia", of which the family still retains the original document.
Citizen and provincial member of the Liberation Committee, he works at the same time to activate sections of the nascent Democrazia Cristiana.
In 1946 he attended the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome and in 1948 he was appointed clerk of the nunciature and used in the Vatican Secretariat of State.
Delegate of the Holy See at the High Commissioner for Refugees O.N.U
There followed assignments in the nunciatures of the Philippine Islands (1950), Turkey (1953), India (1956), Saigon, Vietnam (1958) and Bern, Switzerland (1960).
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