{"id":7250,"date":"2023-06-15T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-italy.eu\/?p=7250"},"modified":"2023-12-14T12:13:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T11:13:20","slug":"casoria-city-of-saints-and-blesseds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-italy.eu\/en\/in-giro-en\/casoria-city-of-saints-and-blesseds\/","title":{"rendered":"Casoria, the city of Saints and Blesseds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casoria<\/strong>, a lovely town North of Naples, holds a singular record<\/strong> that the whole of Europe envies: in actual fact, it is a land of saints and blesseds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with San Mauro<\/strong> (Rome, c. 512 – Angers, c. 584), the city’s patron<\/strong>, to whom the very foundation of Casoria is linked. It is said to be the territory his father brought as a gift to Saint Benedict, whose disciple he was.<\/p>\n

Then we continue with Father Ludovico da Casoria<\/strong> (1814-1885), born Arcangelo Palmentieri, a Franciscan priest of the Order of Friars Minor, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1993<\/strong> and proclaimed a saint by Pope Francis on 23 November 2014<\/strong>. He founded more than 200 institutes throughout Italy, was a missionary in Africa, a promoter of lay commitment through the revival of the Franciscan Third Order and a point of reference in the crucial years of the revolutions of 1848 and Italian unification.<\/p>\n

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Murales San Ludovico, 15 June 2013 in Casoria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the other hand, Santa Maria Cristina Brando<\/strong> (1856-1906) founded the General House of the Sisters Expiatory Victims of Jesus<\/em> in Casoria. In 2003<\/strong> she was proclaimed blessed by Pope John Paul II<\/strong> and a saint by Pope Francis on 17 May 2015<\/strong> in St Peter’s Square. Maria Cristina, born Adelaide Brando, from a wealthy family, embraced the monastic life at a very young age, which she was forced to leave for health reasons, so she moved to Casoria in 1884, where she founded her Institute.<\/p>\n

Santa Giulia Salzano<\/strong> (1846-1929) founded the Catechist Sisters of the Sacred Heart<\/em> in Casoria, where she was an elementary school teacher. In 2003 she was proclaimed Blessed by Pope John Paul II<\/strong>, and then Saint by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Mother Maria Luigia Velotti<\/strong> (1826-1886) was proclaimed Blessed on 26 September 2020<\/strong> in Naples Cathedral by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe at the behest of the Pope. The holy nun, as she was called for her virtues of humility, poverty and charity, spent a life of prayer and penance. In 1868, together with other young women, she started the Adorers of the Holy Cross, and in 1884 the community found a home in Casoria.<\/p>\n

The only place in Italy that has hosted so many saints and blesseds, the city could become an outstanding destination for religious tourism<\/strong>.
\nThree murals<\/strong>, dedicated to the figure of Ludovico da Casoria<\/strong>, the first two by Mirko Di Pierno<\/strong>, and Assunta Improta<\/strong>, the third, the largest portraying San Ludovico in Italy<\/strong>, by the Spanish artist Leticia Mandragora<\/strong>, will be unveiled on the external fa\u00e7ade of the municipal headquarters in Piazza Cirillo.<\/p>\n

The scheduled opening ceremony, which was to be held today, 15 June, at 5 pm<\/strong>, has been postponed to Monday, 19 June<\/strong>, at the same time, due to bad weather conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Casoria, a lovely town North of Naples, holds a singular record that the whole of Europe envies: in actual fact, it is a land of saints and blesseds. Let’s start with San Mauro (Rome, c. 512 – Angers, c. 584), the city’s patron, to whom the very foundation of Casoria is linked. It is said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":7251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"stagioni":[],"attivita":[],"regioni":[921],"class_list":["post-7250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-giro-en","regioni-campania-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-italy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-italy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-italy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-italy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-italy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/in-italy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7270,"href":"https:\/\/in-italy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250\/revisions\/7270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-italy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-italy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-italy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-italy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7250"},{"taxonomy":"stagioni","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-italy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stagioni?post=7250"},{"taxonomy":"attivita","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-italy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attivita?post=7250"},{"taxonomy":"regioni","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-italy.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regioni?post=7250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}