Verona is a city in Veneto, northern Italy and one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the second most populated municipality of the region and the third of North-East Italy.

At eleven years old, Fabro entered into the seminary at the Bertoni Boarding School of the Stigmatine Fathers in Verona (October 30, 1922). During the summer session of 1925, he takes the fourth year of middle school admission exams at the Scipione Maffei Region High School of Verona. He interrupts his studies for the canonical novitiate (1927-28), which he lives with intense interior concentration, as his Brothers relate. He pronounces his first annual and temporary profession at Verona, on November 2, 1928.

He obtains his high school diploma at “Bertoni” in 1929. In order to attend university classes in the fall of the same year, he is transferred to the House of Sant’Agata dei Goti in Rome.

In the year 1935-36, he returns to Verona and assumes the role of Prefect of Studies, and as professor of philosophy, he teaches Cosmology and Psychology at the International Student Residence of the Apostolic School of the Stigmatine Fathers at Verona.