Giuseppe Allamano was an Italian Catholic priest born in 1851 in Castelnuovo Don Bosco. Following his ordination in 1873, he served as a spiritual director and later became the rector of the Santuario della Consolata in Turin. He is best known for establishing the Consolata Missionaries in 1901 and the Consolata Missionary Sisters in 1910. His efforts to encourage missionary work eventually inspired the institution of World Mission Day. He died in Turin in 1926 and was canonized as a saint in 2024.