Giuseppe Valerga
Giuseppe Valerga (born April 9, 1813 in Loano , Italy , † December 2, 1872 in Jerusalem ) was a Roman Catholic bishop , Patriarch of Jerusalem and participant in the First Vatican Council .
Life
Giuseppe Valerga studied at the Albenga seminar and at the Sapienza University of Rome . He was ordained a priest on January 17, 1836 . He worked for the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide , in particular he took care of the Chaldean Catholic Church .
Pope Pius IX appointed him in 1847 Patriarch of Jerusalem , the only Catholic patriarch in the East who belonged to the Roman rite. The episcopal ordination was donated to him on October 10, 1847 by the pontiff himself. It is said that the Pope was amazed at the priest's enormous beard and said: “ This beard alone deserves a very special award! "
The portal Ecumenical Saint Lexicon reports on his work in the Holy Land as follows:
“ On January 16, 1848, he entered Jerusalem. He was an extraordinarily energetic senior shepherd who worked beneficially until his death on December 2nd, 1872. He was able to listen and have a say in many languages, Italian from home, plus French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic at university, and later in Turkish, Kurdish and Chaldean. From 1854 to 1857 he built in Bet-Djala near Bethlehem his seminary for diocesan priests and familiar training the White Fathers of the French Cardinal Lavigerie to. In 1860 he took over an area about 100 meters from the custody in the north-west corner of the old town in which he built his spacious residence. Since the Lord's Sepulcher and Resurrection Church is the cathedral, but it is also used by four Orthodox churches, the Greeks, Armenians, Syrians and Copts, a pro-cathedral is useful; traditionally this is the church of the Custody, consecrated to the Most Holy Redeemer, Salvator, like the Lateran basilica in Rome . He also called the newly built church at the new patriarchal seat, i.e. his cathedral, the Co-Cathedral, but, unlike the Franciscan Co-Cathedral, consecrated it to the Holy Name of Jesus. The new patriarch had the Franciscan co-cathedral built by Saint Salvator on the upper floor of the custody and was able to inaugurate it in 1872; He also established five charitable institutes and from 1852 to 1869, eleven new parishes, namely Beth-Djala, Beth-Sahur, Jifna, Lod, Ramallah, Taybeh, Bir Zeit, Nablus, As Salt, Shafamr and Yafet an-Naasera. "
From 1847 until his death in 1872 he was also Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher .
He died of complications from typhoid fever and was buried in the Patriarchate Church.
Two of his brothers were also priests, one of them, Charles Hyacinth Valerga (1818–1864), Bishop and Vicar Apostolic of Quilon in India; one sister lived as a nun.
literature
- Benedikt Stolz: God's pioneer in the Holy Land. Joseph Valerga, Patriarch of Jerusalem. Christiana Verlag, Stein am Rhein, 1975, ISBN 3-71-710603-1 .
Web links
- Entry on Giuseppe Valerga on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on December 22, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source of the Pope's statement
- ^ Text source from the Florilegium Martyrologii Romani, by Klaus Martin Reichenbach
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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Patriarch of Jerusalem 1847–1872 |
Vincenzo Bracco |
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 Grand Master of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem 1847–1872 |
Vincenzo Bracco |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Valerga, Giuseppe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Patriarch of Jerusalem |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Loano , Italy |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1872 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |