The date of birth of the Diocesan Priorate of the Confraternity could be fixed in March 10 1946, when, in Oratory of the Souls, situated in Genoa in by St. Vincenzo, they reunited thirty of representatives of likewise confraternity of the Genoese Diocese (you see list at the end) for constitute a committee "to which one assign the assignment of gather all the Confraternity in federation."
Really a first attempt had stayed fact in the 1939 already, perhaps in concomitance or to succession of the big Show of the Shacks hold in the spring of that year in the Church of S. Agostino, but the events of the war prevented the concrete of this first initiative. Prelude of the reunion of March 10 1946 it was a meeting that Joseph Casareto had February 18 of the same year, in the Old Arcivescovile Seminar, with the well Vicar Capitular Mons. Francis Canessa from which he had formal authorization and encouragement to proceed.
The agenda of the reunion foresaw the constitution of that Committee which we have pointed to, does it invest of juridical order from the ecclesiastical Authority for begin an activity of study and of reform of the Confraternity. It was owed then set the base for the editing of a common Statute to the Confraternity of the Diocese "also preserve each of they traditions and prerogatives that the ecclesiastical Authority will retain opportune don't notch."
In the same one reunion intended also of begin, through the printing Catholic town, the publication of articles on the activity of the Confraternity, and also examine the possibility of publish a study on of constituted they. Come the Committee of which any made departs Enrico Bodoano which president, Giuseppe Casareto in quality of secretary and they like advisers had named Giacomo Canevello, Giuseppe Carenini and Giacomo Parodi.
In this reunion came also underlined the serious problem of the reconstruction of so much damaged Oratories from the recent war, while one augur that from part of the ecclesiastical Authority designated Don Luigi Parodi which Assistant of the Confraternity.
Meaningful is annotate, by the way of this reunion, and to testimony of the present wish to rise again in so much Confraternity, it had to write time little after to the same Consults, the Superior of the Confraternity of N.S. of the Rosary of the Genoese district of San Fruttuoso, Carlo Pinasco. He, after have mourned the been missing invitation to his Confraternity of participate to the reunion of March 10 (probably due to miscarriage or incompleteness of the prepared lists) it made foresees that, also having had Oratory completely pulverized from the war, and could have saved only a least part of the furnitures and of the work of preserved art, the Confraternity doesn't languish, it even is more alive that never.
Past the first moment of natural dismay and disorientation, the Counsel has taken back the his regular functions, it has continued to expound his order and to follow the noble directives you trace from the old Statute. Going on devoted communication of the advanced phase of reconstruction from Oratory, approving then fully the praiseworthy idea of compile a new Statute.
Few days after, March 13 was held, always in Oratory of the Souls, the first reunion of the Counsel, which provided for naming a series of Delegated of zone whose assignment was that of deal with from near you of the Confraternity assign them. Don Luigi Parodi confirms also that had stayed approved his charge of Assistant for the Confraternity, like also taken action from part of the ecclesiastical Authority of the constitution of this Committee for the Confraternity had stayed.
It comes also established the exact denomination in Consult Diocesan Genoa Confraternity. It will succession as the reunions and it will began the real activity of her Consult. The Delegates of zone carried the problems of the varied Confraternity and in the same time common activity like the share to the Procession of the Corpus was coordinated Dominoes and the presence to the ceremony of installation of the new Archbishop in Cathedral.
They continued the jobs for the compilation of the Statute also, while July 5 Consult it come receipt from the new Archbishop. The meeting turn in most alive cordiality and the Archbishop had words of encomium for the job I turn and of encouragement for the road that stayed still from behavior, confirming Don Luigi Parodi which Delegated Arcivescovile. In the November 1946 arrived at sudden the disappearance of the lawyer. Enrico Bodoano, president of her Consults.
His successor came named any time after, in the February 1947, in the person of Fiorello Gerboni Prioresses of the Confraternity of the Monte.Nel month of December, organized from the Delegate to the Confraternity from Genoa Center, in the Basilica of the Immaculate of by Assarotti, the Genoese Confraternity had consecrated to the Heart of Maria, present the then Provost of the basilica mons. Giacomo Lercaro, future Bishop from Bologna.
Finally March 30 1947, in a rainy spring afternoon, it was present to the plenary assembly of the Confraternity the Statute of which any brings again the integral text in appendix. He came approved unanimously. June 14 following he was approved from the Archbishop and officially promulgated from the Consult. One of the first problems that the Consult Diocesan Confraternity faced with appointment it was that of the reconstitution of so much Confraternity and of the reconstruction from oratories damaged from the recent war events.
We see that already in the December 1947 had faced the problems of the Confraternity of the S. Rosary of St. Teodoro, that undertook to the reconstruction from Oratory with the sale of good in gold of his ownership, of the Confratenity of S. James of the Marinate that undertook for reopen in the first months of the 1948 bomb-damaged oratory, and still, of the Confraternity of the Suffrage of Prione slope, whose members reunited in S. Giovanni of Prè and that promised have from the Civic Genius for the reconstruction from Oratory, of the Confraternity of the Magi kings of Sarzano, that will unite then to that of S. Anthony Abbot of the Marinates.
And as for as many other for whose recostitution Consults it endeavored with each half with the purpose of save that patrimony of fully grown Faith from the interesting confraternity. To this intention the reading of a written relationship in the June of that year from Joseph Casareto regarding note the general situation of the Confraternity of the Diocese. In her came underlined the number of the active Confraternity, that they was 24 to Genoa and 143 in the territory of the Diocese.
But while these last was suitable in fairly florid situation, for those towns was noticed like the war has affected deeply on their activity, and like different that they have had destroyed oratory, they grope in the uncertain dark of a sad tomorrow.
The middle number of the affiliate to each Confraternity was of around 200 unit. In this period, September 12 of the 1947 a figure disappeared that together to Joseph Casareto can well tell best promoter of the ricostitution of the Genoese Confraternity and of the foundation of her Consult Diocesan: Giacomo Canevello, the popular Cillin of the district of St. Vincenzo, what a so much it had also given to Oratory of S. Raffaele.
In the meantime, May 15 1947, Thursday of the Ascension, one was kept the Diocesan Congress of the Confraternity, to Sanctuary of N.S. of the Mountain, where the local Confraternity celebrated the his 5º centenary of foundation. This assembly engaged particular importance be of the first big I meet after that hold in occasion of the Eucaristico Congress of the 1923.
Because of inclement once after the procession of the Crucifixes that climbed to Sanctuary departing from the Church of San Fruttuoso, all the celebrations were held to the inside from Sanctuary and in the adjacent oratorical. The book of the minutes of her Consults Diocesan a void from the March 1948 at 24 o'clock November 1949, but it is the same Casareto secretary that in the dated minute 24 November underlined this long absence of reunions not correspondent however to a lack of activity that instead went on nonstop and with profitable results.
It is in this period that saw the light a deserving work of mons. Domenico Cambiaso, Abbot of the Collegiate of N.S. of the Remedy, that, thank you also to the bring furnished from Joseph Casareto, he published Country a documented historical wise man on the Confraternity of the Liguria on the Actions of the Ligure Society of History, work that conclusive again stays without doubt today for how much they want to face the theme of the Confraternity from the historical and artistic point of view.From the minute of the reunion of November 24 1949 is learned of the sensitive awakening that verify between the Genoese Confraternity stayed: oratories of Murta and of Begato for instance, they celebrated their centenary parties while the Confraternity of S. Anthony Abbot of the Marinates desirable the of Sarzano plaza gather in his Oratory of other Confraternity of city that they had their destroyed Oratory.
In the meantime Consult it had devoted yourself the own inside rule, that came approved from the Curia Arcivescovile December 22 1949; from such give it Consult engage the denomination of Priorato Ligure Confraternite.Nel 1950 the Priorate became promoter of activity that they is useful for sensitize the believers and the brothers particularly, to the solemn event of the Year Saint, while you for logistic motives must renounce the pilgrimage to Rome in a first programmed time.
It has not pointed to in the minutes to what they are these specific motives, but it easy think that one of the principal pits that shortage of economic means that the Confraternity, but above all the same brothers, they must have: we don't forget that the war had finished from less of five years.
In a letter to all the Confraternity of the Diocese, in date 2 February 1950, they came underlined any points on which in the course of the Year Saint would be been due [lavorare.Essi] they concerned the convocation of Conferences of zone, the common fulfillment of the Precetto Pasquale, the restoration of her recite daily of the S. Rosary, the popularization of the Catholic printing.
In this year came then organized a Crucis St. to Sanctuary d N.S. of the Mountain with the intervention of the miraculous Crucifix of the homonymous Confraternity of Recco, Crucifix historically tied up to the movement of the Confraternity.
The Consult it must deal with in this period also of delicate matters that concern the relationships between priest and Confraternity, that they in some cases didn't can certainly tell idyllic. But the good wish shown from the parts and the patient work of persuasion turns from the members of her Consult get the wanted results for a harmonious coexistence and collaboration often.
Still in the 1950 is from record the installation of her Consult Diocesan Confraternity in the new center by Oratory of S. Anthony Abbot of the Marinates, thank you to the hospitable availability shown from the well Prioresses of the Rambaldi Confraternity. In that year in occasion of the 550º anniversary of foundation of the Confraternity of S. James of the Forges, it came organized a grandiose procession for the streets from Genoa of which vast echo in city was had.
It continued the activity of the Priorato, that between the other collaborated them solemn centenary celebrations of foundation with numerous Confraternity of the Diocese in the, in the following years like to Bogliasco, Arenzano, Multedo, Ruta, Camogli. In the May 1952 the Confraternity of the Diocese participated to the Mariano Congress and in the 1955 to the Congress of the Cult of the Lord.
We remember as he had to tell the cardinal Sires to the Confraternity gather in S. Lawrence in occasion of the solemn closing of this Congress in the day of the Ascension of the 1955: "you Hold dear your insignias, they are worth to affirm a past. Your [tabarri] is a patrimony of the faith of the fathers."
Still other Confraternity rised again from the ruins of the war: it is the case for instance from Oratories of the Rosary of Vipers and of S. Ambrogio of Voltri.Nel 1955 the Priorato endeavored for behavior yes that between the Confraternity understand comes the directives you emanate the preceding year from the Provincial Council of the Liguri Bishops.
With them was invited the Confraternity to conform to the General Statute emanated like we have seen in the 1947; they were barred norms for her recite of the Office, first or after the Sunday Mass; it had given correct authority to the Parroci towards the Confraternity for as concern their religious life; it occurred again the invitation to don't accept the affiliate to the Communist Party in the Confraternity, convict from the ecclesiastical Authority.
These and other points came underlined in the Conference of the Confraternity that it was held May 14 in the church of the Pious Schools, to few footsteps from S.Lorenzo. It was also from the 1955 that the Priorato transferred the own center beside the Collegiate of N.S. of the Remedy of Alimonda plaza, where it would have stayed until at 1988 o'clock.
They in the 1956 Oratories of the East remembered with an imposing pilgrimage to N.S. from Garden to Chiavari an ancient pilgrimage which participated, between the others, the Confraternity of S. Ilario, of Bogliasco, of Pieve and of Sori, which they in the 1610 had approached to Chiavari after only eighteen days from the apparition of the Virgo in garden of happened Sebastiano Descalzo July 2.
They with the 1957 began those grandiose pilgrimages of the Confraternity liguri to Sanctuaries and city, that they took the name then of "assemblies"; in that year the destination was Sanctuary of Vicoforte, by Mondovì, which they followed in the 1958 Sanctuary of N.S. of Caravaggio, in the 1959 the city of Lucca, near to the Confraternity from ancient bonds, for then arrive at to the grandiose one meets of the 1960 to Rome, with pope Giovanni XXIII.
The importance of this pilgrimage that carry two thousand brothers from now on to the Pope came underlined in one written about Mr. Charles Crovetto: "The Romans are not easy to the wonder. They entertain million annually of wandering and of deriving tourists from each part of the world: under their eyes unthread a collection of samples of varied humanity that carries with oneself, continuosly in the language and in the custom, the signs of the civilizations of the five continents.
Nevertheless the Genoese Confraternity have been able to conquer the attention and to arouse amazement not only of the Romans, but of the many foreigners that crowded the plaza and the Basilica of S.Pietro in the radiant day of April 24. (...) before the papal hearing the Genoese pilgrims have received the Communion. For more than one one dealt with é an Easter Communion that has aroused a more aware attachment to the faith and to the Christian practice. "he Stay still alive I in the remember who there the meeting with Giovanni pope participated, that to the Brothers of S.Chiara of Bogliasco asked information on their origin and on the weight of the Crucifix.
In the following years the assemblies of the Confraternity engaged the definitive annual lilt in the day of April 25. We remember Turin in the 1961, Pavia in the 1962, Under the Mountain, country native of Giovanni pope, in the 1963, Pisa in the 1964, Como in the 1965. Here stay, because by now the history stays chronicle still, and the circumstances of these last thirty years, they will be better reported in the next decades, even when some other celebrate the first Centenary of the Priorate Ligure of the Confraternity.
To memory of the fathers founders opportune creed remember their names and those of their Confraternity of affiliation in this center: March 10 1946 they were present Enrico Bodoano of the Confraternity of the S. Rosary of Montanesi, Pietro Silvio Torriglia Confraternity of the SS. Suffrage from Genoa, Giacomo Canevello Confraternity Purgative Souls from Genoa, Angelo Friscione Confraternity of the Souls of S. Zita from Genoa, Giuseppe Carenini Confraternity of the S. Rosary from Genoa Vipers, Beniamino Profumo Confraternity of the S. Rosary and S. Theodore from Genoa, Agostino Poggi Congregation of Charity from Genoa Pammatone, Marcello Parodi Confraternity of S. Maria Our Lady of Sorrows of Campomorone, Francesco Canepa Confraternity Death and Prayer of Pontedecimo, Luigi Crovetto Confraternity of S. Nicolò of S. Ilario, Friscione Angelo Confraternity of the S. Rosary of Pedemonte, Francesco Mirabelli and Davide Ghiglione Confraternity of S. Joseph of Ronco Scrivia, Brea Angelo and Filippo Crosa Confraternity of the SS. Trinità of Fegino, Carlo Ferrando with iron Confraternity of S. James of the Forges and S. Anthony Genoa Abbot, Giovanni Battista Cortese of the Confraternity of the Mercede from Genoa, Giuseppe Casareto, Luigi Risso and Franco Concù Confraternity of the S. Rosary of Nerves, Andrea Canessa and Bartolomeo Fossati Confraternity of the S.Rosario from Genoa Quezzi, Giacomo Parodi Confraternity of the Magi kings and of the Souls from Genoa Mouth, Giuseppe Gambetta onfraternity of S. James of the Marinates, Paolo Poggi Confraternity of S. Maria Maddalena of Quezzi, Giovanni Ponte and Michele Boero Confraternity of N.S. Engaged and Montallegro of Albaro, Giuseppe Cogorno Confraternity S. Bartholomew of Staglieno, Alfredo Biande Confraternity of S. Anthony Abbot of Pieve Ligure; present Mr. Luigi Parodi of the Collegiate of N.S. of the Remedy in representation of the Vicar Capitular and Mr. delegated De Bernardi of the Diocesan Center for the reconstruction of the buildings of the Cult.
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