Agostino Gaetano Riboldi
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Agostino Gaetano Riboldi (18 February 1839 – 25 April 1902) was an
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of the
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. He was the
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held on 15 April 1901 and became the Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo. A street in the town of his birth,
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, is named for him.


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