Alberto Vassallo di Torregrossa

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Alberto Vassallo di Torregrossa (born December 28, 1865 in San Cataldo , † September 7, 1959 ibid) was an Italian theologian and Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Alberto Vassallo di Torregrossa was the son of Rose and Rosario von Torregrossa. He attended the archbishop's seminary of Catania , then the college of San Michele, Acireale . He studied Catholic theology , canon law and civil law at the papal Roman seminary .

On 22 September 1888 he received by Giuseppe Francica-Nava de Bontifè the priesthood and was pastor at the Church of San Sebastian in Caltanissetta . He held his first mass in the church of his home parish of San Cataldo. On November 25, 1913, he was named titular archbishop of Hemesa ; the episcopal ordination donated him on January 18, 1914 Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta . From November 25, 1913 to 1925, he was Apostolic Nuncio to various South American governments. From 1913 to 1916 he was Apostolic Nuncio in Colombia , Internuncio in Argentina until 1920 , Nuncio in Paraguay until 1925 and Apostolic Nuncio to Bavaria from 1925 to May 31, 1934.

“I didn't understand you for a long time, but I tried for a long time. Today I understand you. "

- Alberto Vassallo di Torregrossa on Adolf Hitler laying the foundation stone of the House of Art on October 15, 1933.

The Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda used its interpretative sovereignty from media power and published a poster with a photograph of di Torregrossa with Hitler for the Reichstag election in November 1933 with the vote to leave the League of Nations and added: »Every German Catholic today also understands Adolf Hitler and votes November 12th with "Yes"! «

On November 17, 1933, Franz Xaver Schwarz demanded that the nuncio be evacuated from the property at Brienner Strasse 15 . According to the plans of Paul Ludwig Troost , the property would be needed for party buildings in the vicinity of the Brown House . In the spring of 1934 di Torregrossa was relocated to the Palais Seyssel d'Aix ; There the Apostolic Nunciature in Munich was searched from October 1st to 3rd, 1936 by the Berlin Special Public Prosecutor with the assistance of the Gestapo . Alberto Vassallo-Torregrossa left Munich on October 23, 1936 .

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Bruppacher: Adolf Hitler and the history of the NSDAP: a chronicle. Part 1: 1889 to 1937 . Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, p. 328. (digitized source)
  2. ^ Ekkart Sauser:  Vassallo-Torregrossa, Alberto. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 1504-1506.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  3. ↑ Michael F. Feldkamp : Pius XII. and Germany . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, p. 103.
  4. ^ Historical Lexicon of Bavaria - Apostolic Nunciature, Munich

literature

  • Michael F. Feldkamp : The abolition of the Apostolic Nunciature in Munich in 1934. With an appendix of the official data of the nuncios, internunts and chargées 1786–1934 . In: Awakening anew in the memory of the Church. Studies on the history of Christianity in Central and Eastern Europe. Festival ceremony for Gabriel Adriányi. Edited by Reimund Haas, Karl Josef Rivinius and Hermann-Josef Scheidgen , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne - Weimar - Vienna 2000 (= Bonn Contributions to Church History , Vol. 22), pp. 185–234.

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personal data
SURNAME Vassallo di Torregrossa, Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Archbishop
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH San Cataldo
DATE OF DEATH 7th September 1959
Place of death San Cataldo