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Salvatore Martinez (Enna, 1966) is the first layperson to serve as the president of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in Italy.
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- Rns salvatore martinez muoviti in me
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- Personal life
- Career
- Consultor
- Vatican Foundation
- Renewal in the Spirit in Italy
- Organizations
- Publications
- References

He published 25 books, including Sospinti dallo Spirito in May 2014. His previous book was Papa Francesco e lo Spirito Santo. Novità, armonia, missione (Pope Francis and the Holy Spirit. Novelty, harmony, mission). Some of his books have been translated into English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Polish and Mandarin.

He is an expert in sacred music, and a composer of songs used in the liturgical repertoire, which are recorded in more than 20 musical productions for choir and orchestra, translated and used in many parts of the world.

He collaborates with Italian and foreign magazines on themes of spirituality.

As a conference speaker he has spoken in thirty-five countries on all five continents on spirituality, with special emphasis on youth, families and priests, on the promotion of the laity, social discomfort, the social doctrine of the Church. He has been invited by Bishops' conferences, by social and cultural institutions and other bodies.

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Personal life

He is a graduate in Paleography and Musical philology with highest honors at the University of Pavia, with a thesis of specialization on the history of the Pontiffs of the first millennium.

He married Luciana Leone.
Career

He was a teacher and consultant for the Pontifical Universities in Rome and around the world.
Beginning in 2002 he coordinated the Italian Delegation for the "National Prayer Breakfast”"in Washington D.C., at which he spoke on the Middle East.
He was nominated by the Pope, as an auditor, for the synod on the “New Evangelization” from October 7 to 28, 2012. He was part of the delegation of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem Pope Francis' May 2014 visit to the Holy Land.
He presided at the Olympic Stadium of Rome (June 1–2, 2014) with Pope Francis, the XXXVII Convocation of the Renwal.
Consultor
He is Consultor of three Pontifical Dicasteries. In March 2008, Pope Benedict XVI nominated him Consultor of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, an appointment that was renewed by Pope Francis in 2013 ad quinquennium. In September 2009 he became Consultor for the Pontifical Council for the Family renewed by Pope Francis in 2014 ad quinquennium. in April 2012 he became Consultor for the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization.
Vatican Foundation
He is President of the Vatican Foundation “International Center Family of Nazareth” founded on October 17, 2012 by Benedict XVI, with juridical canonical public and Vatican civil personality, for the development of the Magisterium of the Family in the world, with a special mandate to build and manage the "Home of the Pope for the families" at Nazareth, as an ecumenical and interreligious dialogue of peace in the Middle East (a wish of Pope John Paul II announced at Rio de Janeiro in 1997, and renewed by Benedict XVI in 2009 and by Francis in 2014 in occasion of the papal trips to the Holy Land).
Renewal in the Spirit in Italy
The Renewal in the Spirit in Italy is a private association of faithful whose Statutes have been recognized by the Italian Episcopal Conference and the Holy See. It has about 1900 groups and communities in Italy, with over 250,000 members (about 300 groups in Sicily with over 20,000 members), nine missions outside Italy (including the Republic of Moldova, Israel, Jordan), four national residential schools, a publishing house, a foundation for the promotion of socially useful projects, and society of services for the organization of Events.