Celestino Endrici

Celestino Endrici (14 March 1866 – 29 October 1940, in Trento) was an Italian Catholic archbishop, from 1904 to 1940.

He attended the Imperial Royal Lyceum of Trento then studied philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome.

Later he began to feel the problem of nationality, and the outbreak of the First World War put him in a delicate position.

In 1928 he helped De Gasperi, persecuted by Fascism, to be hired at the Vatican Apostolic Library.

He had a heart attack in 1934 and his pastoral action was affected, he died in 1940 after the outbreak of the Second World War.