Luckily my neuroses to keep everything, as opposed , so I said the analyst, the compulsion of my dear departed mother to get rid of everything to make room for it is not known to what, on this particular occasion I came to the rescue and was useful to solve a painful question and doubt that this morning I gripped compelling and disturbing, since the pale light of dawn to read the newspapers of the day, at least three had to have a comparison, I threw and rushed into the most frightening and destructive uncertainty Memory not yet, I hope, senile. In fact, at the beginning of the celebration of the sesquicentennial anniversary of the unification of Italy, an event that our country is preparing to celebrate with enthusiasm, not unanimous, the coldness of the League's early and consistent in a sense, I do not he is quite surprised as expected and announced, whereas I was amazed, excited and moved by the patriotic enthusiasm with which he expressed the President of the CEI, Cardinal Bagnasco, head of the Italian bishops urged by him to join festive anniversary: \u200b\u200b" I believe that the unification of Italy is in everyone's heart. I firmly believe that we should participate with all our energy in various forms and cultural celebrations next year. The anniversary should be turned into a happy occasion for a new love of our being Italian. "
These words are echoed by President Giorgio Napolitano reminiscent grateful " the great contribution of the Catholic Church and for the unification of Italy."
Moved, ensnared, moved, inflamed by patriotic ardor speak with one of the two Presidents, but was eaten by a terrible doubt, a disquieting uncertainty and hesitation of memory, I ran down into the cellar to see my school books, History precisely, the elementary , middle school and high school, to avoid the risk of leaving something untried and revive the memories of my distant field.
Great was my surprise, dismay and disappointment in reading about these texts, but as my memory recalled that the Pope and the whole Church, were among the fiercest opponents, adversaries and enemies Unit of Italy, which ended on XX September 1870 with the capture, militarily, of Rome, last bastion of the Church's temporal power, and that cost a Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Italy, the papal excommunication.
But by a leap back on those books I read History of Angiolo Targhini and Leonida Montanari, both Carbonari and the second also Freemason, executed by order of Pope Leo XII and by means of decapitation in Piazza del Popolo in Rome on November 23 1825, by Mastro Titta, the Executioner Pope, who, commenting about the two patriots in the "Memoirs of a murderer, written by himself"
"beheaded the People Angiolo Targhini Leonida Montanari and two co-conspirators against the Government of His Holiness belonging to the sect of the Carbonari. "
But I still read out of the "Roman Republic" in 1849 Triumvirs of Mazzini, Saffi, and Armellini, and General Giuseppe Garibaldi, one of the most important examples of our glorious and Risorgimento, which tore at the Pope Pius IX's temporal power for only five months, from February 9 to July 4, 1849, very few, but enough to give Rome a constitution that would make a model to the Constitution currently in force in Italy.
Every year on July 6 I went to the Gianicolo, a place sacred to the country, the Shrine of the fallen in the defense of Rome to pay homage at the tomb of Goffredo Mameli, who died at the age of 22 to defend the city against the French troops Napoleon III came to the rescue of the Pope and with the opportunity I bow before the monuments that bear the names of the patriots who died for Rome including Angelo Brunetti said Ciceruacchio executed by order of the Pope with his son Lorenzo's only 13.
I am moved to the brothers Henry and John Cairoli died October 23, 1867 at Villa Glori, a Roman patriot Giuditta Tavani Arquati murdered along with his entire family October 25, 1867 by papal Zouaves and the patriots Mountains and Tognetti last executed by the State the papal order of the Pope King November 24, 1868 and finally fell to the XX September 1870 at Porta Pia.
But then, I wonder in amazement and dismay, what we refer to the words of Cardinal Bagnasco?
Perhaps the substance of the Church to have been a proud and fierce opponent of the unification of Italy, thus making these Patriots Heroes?
Domenico Mazzullo
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