Extract from the kept lecture the 16.01.99 from Luciano Venzano
in occasion of the inauguration of the
Center Studies on the Confraternity G. Casareto
He born April 13 1920 from Baptist Giovanni and from Luigia Cichero and he died to Genoa June 24 1995.
The father was of Camogli and the mother of Recco. Baptized in the church plebana of St. Siro to Nerves, he was deeply influenced from the figure of the Bagnasco Pastor. This church always was for him, so tied up to the sense of the roots and to the memory of the past, a point of reference, so much from leave written, between the his last wish, that his exequies is here celebrates.
To little more than twenty years, in the March of the 1946 he came entrusted from the Mons Vicar. Francesco Canessa, then regent of the Diocese from Genoa for the death of the Cardinal Boetto, the ricostitution of the Priorate after the Napoleonic suppressionl of the 1811. The Casareto had the charge of gather the priors of the Confraternity of the city and of those more in sight of the diocese placed side by side for the religious advise from Don Parodi.
The remelt of the Priorate happened March 10 1946 in Oratory of the Souls of by St. Vincenzo: Casareto had stayed the only surviving of that group of priors that answered his call. He would have stayed secretary for 43 years of it, infusing vitality, in tuning to the pastorality of the Abbot Parodi, to the reborn movement of confraternity. When he came to be missing the Abbot, the Casareto, he retained opportune retire for leave the management to the young people that they were emerging, he that's why had named "Emeritus Prioresses," position kind on purpose for him.
Already prioresses of the Confraternity of the Turchini in Nerves, he like Secretary of the Priorate conceived the first assembly of the Confraternity to Vicoforte of Mondovì in the 1957 to which any would have followed many other that they continue to carry in the principal city from Italy, a demonstration of art and of popular religiousness of the Ligur earth.
Memorable the assemblies to center of Pietro: in the 1960 with Pope Giovanni XXIII; in the holy year 1975 with Paolo VI, up to the big international meeting of the 1984 with Giovanni Paul II where his obstinacy was able to win the obstinate Vatican denial and to behavior yes that well 91 crucifixes and 109 Confraternity approach in St. Pietro.
He wanted, with the Abbot Parody, that they are formulated in the course of the years well three statutes: that of the 1947; that of the 1965 and finally that of the 1986 that it is characterized, between the other, for the given relief to the sister in the Confraternity.
With the same ardor protected and he valorized the artistic patrimony from oratories, up to the grandiose demonstration of the 1982 "Liguria of the Shacks," that it was wanted from him and promoted from the local corporate body. The last show had stayed organized from the Prof. Hemming, in the 1939, when the patrimony of the confraternity had read in key folk purely. From this demonstration came given the correct artistic value to all what it is the processional patrimony.
Collaborator of Cassiano Father from Langasco and Mons. Luigi Alfonso, the maxima historical of the Genoese Church were a part of the association of History Country and of the Friend.
Erudite layman, he recovered the tradition and he did a new center propulsive of the Confraternity of I meet always working in tuning with the abbot Parodi of which he shared the cultural imprint.
Known for the Genoa ways, in the language, in the style, in the lexicon, that allowed him to connect this world of nature and popular origin with the world of the culture, of the political dimension of the city. He had frequent contacts especially with the well Cerofolini mayor and with all the aldermen to the culture of the momento. He was a puller and unfortunately also a centralizing; he didn't cultivate disciples but so much friends and admirers of his work, his era a strong role that felt in the blood.
Impossible don't find traces of his searches and also after his continuous disappearance to influence with his style and with his studies the actual writers of local history.
Like recognition of his activity for the increase of the Catholic Church, it was decorated in the 1980 of the Pontifical Order of St. Silvestro Papa on educated practice in the 1979 and guaranteed from the Cardinal Giuseppe Siri and he in such dresses had named like limb of the errand of the erecting Diocesan Museum.
Also for him was difficulty involve the Confraternity if not in an environment where there era strong influx of difficult people. He remain also give them a sense of common spirituality, many they in fact contested this his call to the prayer rather than to the luxury.
To few years from his disappearance has devoted itself life to the Center Studies entitled to his name. Center Studies that it want to do the point of strength of the own searches of the eclecticism of the Casareto.
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