Un Santo Per La Ricostruzione Cristiana Dell'Europa: La campagna (fallita) per la proclamazione di san Benedetto patrono d'Europa nel 1946-1947
The article focuses on the (failed) campaign to name Benedict of Nursia the patron Saint of Europe, launched in June 1946 by the Abbot of Montecassino, Ildefonso Rea. Notwithstanding the international support the campaign attracted, Pope Pius XII decided not to acquiesce to the Italian and European...
| Published in: | Rivista di storia del cristianesimo |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Ed. Morcelliana
[2017]
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| In: |
Rivista di storia del cristianesimo
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBA Western Europe KCD Hagiography; saints KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Benedetto da Norcia
B identità europa B le radici religiose dell'Europa B Benedict of Nursia B BENEDICT, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino B santi patroni d'Europa B Europe Religion History B European Identity B Patron Saints of Europe |
| Summary: | The article focuses on the (failed) campaign to name Benedict of Nursia the patron Saint of Europe, launched in June 1946 by the Abbot of Montecassino, Ildefonso Rea. Notwithstanding the international support the campaign attracted, Pope Pius XII decided not to acquiesce to the Italian and European Catholic hierarchy, preoccupied most likely that the elevation of the “Patriarch of the West” to the status of patron Saint of Europe would be considered no less than an endorsement of the Western bloc. Based on the analysis of 149 postulant epistles kept in the Archives of the Abbey of Montecassino, the article pursues two main objectives: 1) to reconstruct the creation of the myth of Saint Benedict as the artefice of European Civilisation; 2) to offer a glimpse of the Italian and European Catholic hierarchy in the aftermath of the Second World War, with a particular focus on its perception of the times and its religious and political preoccupations. |
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