Father Aldo Marchesini - doctor and missionary in Mozambique - official site
- 10-9-1941 born in Bologna
- 1961 entered the novitiate of the Congregation of Priests of the Sacred Heart (Dehoniani)
- 27-12-1969 ordained a priest
- 1966 degree in Medicine, University of Bologna, with 110 cum laude.
- 29-7-1970 arrived in Africa for the first time
- from the end of October 70 until 10-9-1971 in Uganda at the Kalongo hospital with the founder Father Ambrosoli
- At the beginning of September 1971 he fell ill; of a violent viral hepatitis. After two months of bed he returned & ograve; in Italy to recover. He was convalescing for a few months. In the summer went to Niguarda Hospital in Milan to practice and wrote 'Memories of the Hospital'
- from 9-1972 to 9-1973 in Lisbon to study Portuguese and Tropical Medicine at the University of Lisbon.
- 11/15/1974 departure for Mozambique
- 21-11-1974 arrival at Beira airport
- from 5-12-1973 until 29-7-1974 in the Hospital of Aber in Uganda with Father Bianchi
- from 8-1974 to 11-74 in Addis Ababa for a clinical course on leprosy in the center of ALERT, 5 miles from the capital.
- on 20-11-1974 departure for Mozambique, arriving via Lisbon, at Beira airport on 21 November 1974.
- From 12-1974 until 30-1-1975, first contract as a surgeon with the transitional government, in Quelimane
- from 30-1-1975 to 7-1976 transferred to Mocuba as the only doctor in the two districts of Mocuba and Lugela, then to Songo until 11-1976
- from 29-7-1980 to 5-1981 return to Italy for a period of rest and updating.
- from 5-1981 to 20-8-1981 return to Mozambique in the Maputo Orthopedics for updating
- from 1-9-1981 until now in the hospital of Quelimane