Rev. John Pinasco, SJ, (11 June 1837 – 9 March 1897), was born in the vicinity of
Genoa and entered the
Jesuit
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Novitiate at
Bonaecola in 1853. In 1858, he was sent to the Jesuit college at
Stonyhurst
Stonyhurst is the name of a rural estate owned by the Society of Jesus near Clitheroe in Lancashire, England. It is centred on Stonyhurst College, occupying the great house, its preparatory school Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall and the parish ...
to study philosophy with Rev. Father Bayma, SJ, one of the premier professors of the
Society of Jesus in
Europe.
Pinasco came directly to
Santa Clara College
Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California. Established in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California. The university's campus surrounds the historic Mis ...
in 1860, where he taught until 1876 with a four-year break for additional theological training at
Georgetown University between 1868 and 1872.
In 1876, he moved to the
University of San Francisco, where he served as president. Thereafter, he twice served Santa Clara College in the same capacity, (1880-1883 and 1888-1893 respectively).
Fr. Pinasco died at the
Sacred Heart Novitiate in
Los Gatos, aged 59.
References
Santa Clara College (corporate authorship). ''Souvenir of Santa Clara College''. Santa Clara, CA: University Press, 1901. (Page 20)
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1837 births
1897 deaths
Georgetown University alumni
19th-century Italian Jesuits
Clergy from Genoa
Presidents of Santa Clara University
Presidents of the University of San Francisco
People educated at Stonyhurst College
Italian emigrants to the United States