Carlo Crespi Croci


Carlo Crespi Croci - Italian Salesian, missionary working in South America. Servant of God Catholic Church

He came from a large family. He graduated from the Salesian Secondary School in Turin. In 1907 he made religious vows, and in 1917 he was ordained priest. He studied natural sciences at the University of Padua. In 1923 he left for Ecuador where he spent the rest of his life. He worked in Cuenca, where he ran charity work for the poorest. Educational programs for children from poor families.

He gained fame as a propagator of pseudoscience theory about the existence of transatlantic shipping and the origins of South American cultures from the Old World. He claimed that the American continent was inhabited by colonists from Egypt and Babylonia. In his home in Cuenca he created a museum in which he collected a huge collection of supposedly artefacts allegedly given to him by the natives to confirm his thesis. Skeptics' skepticism was described by Erich von Däniken, who treated them as evidence to reinforce their views.

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