Pietro Leoni

Pietro Leoni
Born	(1909-01-01)1 January 1909 Forlì, Italy
Died	26 July 1995(1995-07-26) (aged 86) Montreal, Canada

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Pietro Leoni (1 January 1909 – 26 July 1995) was an Italian priest of the Society of Jesus and the Russian Greek Catholic Church. His memoir of surviving the Gulag, "Spia del Vaticano!", was published after his return to the West.