Roman Catholic Cardinal. A native of Castelnuovo d'Asti, present day Castelnuovo Don Bosco, which village also gave birth to Saint John Bosco (1815-1888), Giovanni Cagliero entered the latter's Pious Society of St. Francis de Sales in 1851, receiving the clerical habit from Don Bosco himself. Reputed to be his favorite pupil, among his classmates were also Saint Dominic Savio (1842-1857), and Blessed Michele Rua SDB., (1837-1910). Ordained priest on June 14, 1862, he taught at the Salesian House of Studies in Turin until 1875. Leading the first ten Salesians to America and establishing five houses in Uruguay and Argentina between 1875 and 1877, he successively became spiritual director of his Society and the first general director of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in Turin. Named pro-apostolic vicar of the then newly erected vicariate of Northern Patagonia, Argentina, by Pope Leo XIII, Cagliero received his episcopal consecration with the titular see of Magydus on December 7, 1884 in Turin from Cardinal Gaetano Alimonda. Appointed archbishop of the titular see of Sebastea on March 24, 1904, he was named apostolic internuncio in Central America by Pope Pius X on August 7, 1908, an office which he held until 1915. At seventy seven years of age, he was elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals by Pope Benedict XV in the consistory of December 6, 1915 with the title of San Bernardo alle Terme. Opting for suburbicarian see of Frascati on December 16, 1920, Cagliero was the first member of the Salesian Society to be named bishop and furthermore to be elevated to the cardinalite. Passing away inside his residence in Rome on February 28, 1926, he was initially buried in the chapel of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith at the local Campo Verano Cemetery. His remains were eventually transferred to Mater Misericordiae Cathedral in Viedma in 1964.