Andrea Gallo

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Don Gallo at an event organized by the Emergency Organization on July 22, 2007 in Bolano

Don Andrea Gallo (born July 18, 1928 in Genoa , Italy ; † May 22, 2013 there ) was an Italian Catholic priest and Christian social reformer . He founded the community of San Benedetto al Porto in Genoa and is known in Italy as the priest of the street .

Life

Andrea Gallo was already attracted to the Order of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) as a teenager and entered their novitiate in Varazze in 1948 . He then attended a grammar school in Rome and studied philosophy. In 1953 , at his request, his order sent him to São Paulo , Brazil , where, in addition to missionary work, he continued to study theology. Due to the political situation in Brazil, he returned to Italy a year later, where he completed his theology studies in Ivrea and was finally ordained a priest on July 1, 1959 .

The following year, Gallo became a chaplain on the Nave Scuola della Garaventa , a training ship for young people who had committed criminal offenses and were difficult to educate. There he tried to introduce a new approach to education, which should replace the previous repressive methods with a pedagogy based on trust and freedom. The young people accepted this new concept and got involved in the partial self-administration offered to them. Criticism of Gallo's work came from his order, which in 1963 relieved him of responsibility for this project and transferred him. Thereupon Gallo left the Salesians and was incardinated in the Archdiocese of Genoa .

Cardinal Siri , the archbishop of Genoa at that time, first sent him to the island of Capraia to work as a prison chaplain. Two months later, however, he was appointed second priest of the Carmine parish in Genoa , where he served until 1970. In Genoa, Gallo focused his work on helping the poor and the marginalized. This work, combined with his clear criticism of the political and ecclesiastical establishment, brought Gallo the accusation of being a "communist" and in 1970, at the instigation of the Italian Bishops' Conference, led to the order that Cardinal Siri was again forcibly transferred to the prison of Capraia. Even a large protest movement in Carmine in favor of Don Gallos could not change this decision.

Don Gallo refused to obey this forced transfer and was instead accepted into his parish by the pastor of San Benedetto al Porto , Don Federico Rebora. There Don Gallo founded the San Benedetto al porto community , which is dedicated to working with the poor and the marginalized across the region. In addition, Don Gallo was involved in the Italian peace movement and in a movement for the legalization of soft drugs (together with Vasco Rossi and Piero Pelù ).

On June 27, 2009 Don Gallo on has Genova Pride Day 2009 participated, where he criticized the attitude of the Catholic Church on sexuality and especially against homosexuals and on 15 August 2011, he was as gay Personality of the Year of gay.it excellent. In November 2010 the book by Don Gallo and Loris Mazzetti Sono venuto per servire (I came to serve) was published, which received much attention in Italy .

Don Gallo also participated in the first solo album by Cisco , a former singer with the Modena City Ramblers .

Works by Don Gallo

  • La chiesa di San Giuliano. Guida storico artistica , Venezia, Edizioni studium cattolico veneziano, 1995. ISBN 88-85351-20-4 .
  • Poi siamo tutti belli. La Comunità di San Benedetto attraverso le agende di don Andrea Gallo , Roma, Sensibili alle Foglie, 1995.
  • L'inganno droga , Tivoli, Sensibili alle Foglie, 1998. ISBN 88-86323-30-1 .
  • Il fiore pungente. Conversation with Don Andrea Gallo , di Fabia Binci e Paolo Masi, Arenzano, O Caroggio, 2000; Milano, Dalai, 2011. ISBN 978-88-662-0070-3 .
  • Trafficanti di sogni , con altri, Lerici, Ippogrifo Liguria, 2004.
  • Angelicamente anarchico. Autobiografia , Milano, Mondadori, 2005. ISBN 88-04-53593-8 .
  • Il cantico dei drogati. L'inganno droga nella società delle dipendenze , Dogliani, Sensibili alle Foglie, 2005. ISBN 88-86323-98-0 .
  • Io cammino con gli ultimi , con Federico Traversa, Genova, Chinaski, 2007. ISBN 88-89966-10-6 .
  • In viaggio con Don Gallo , con Federico Traversa, Genova, Chinaski, 2008. ISBN 88-89966-26-2 .
  • So in terra, come in cielo , con Simona Orlando, Milano, Mondadori, 2010. ISBN 978-88-04-59654-7 .
  • Sono venuto per servire , con Loris Mazzetti, Roma, Aliberti, 2010. ISBN 978-88-7424-614-4 .
  • E io continuo a camminare con gli ultimi , con Federico Traversa, Genova, Chinaski, 2011. ISBN 88-89966-65-3 .
  • Ancora in strada. Un prete da marciapiede , con Bruno Viani, Genova, De Ferrari, 2011. ISBN 978-88-640-5283-0 .
  • Di sana e robusta Costituzione , Roma, Aliberti, 2011. ISBN 978-88-7424-789-9 .
  • Il vangelo di un utopista , Reggio Emilia-Roma, Aliberti, 2011. ISBN 978-88-7424-820-9 .
  • Se non ora, adesso. [Le donne, i giovani, la liberazione sessuale] , Milano, Chiarelettere, 2011. ISBN 978-88-619-0181-0 .
  • Non uccidete il futuro dei giovani , Milano, Dalai, 2011. ISBN 978-88-662-0232-5 .
  • La buona novella. Perché non dobbiamo avere paura , Roma, Aliberti, 2012. ISBN 978-88-7424-869-8 .
  • Sopra ogni cosa. Il Vangelo laico secondo Fabrizio De André nel testamento di un profeta. Piemme, 2014. ISBN 978-88-566-2458-8 .

Works about Don Gallo

  • Fabia Binci e Paolo Masi, Il fiore pungente - Conversazioni con don Andrea Gallo , Arenzano, Editrice O Caroggio, 2000.
  • Bruni Viani, Prete da marciapiede , Genova, De Ferrari, 2002. ISBN 978-88-7172-415-7 .
  • Corrado Zunino, Preti contro , Roma, Fandango, 2002. ISBN 978-88-8751-742-2 .

Web links

Commons : Andrea Gallo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Andrea Gallo  - Quotes (Italian)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ È morto Don Andrea Gallo , German-Italian cultural group in Aachen e. V. May 25, 2013, accessed June 18, 2017.
  2. ↑ Don Gallo personaggio LGBT 2011 parte I on YouTube
personal data
SURNAME Gallo, Andrea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gallo, Don Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Catholic priest and Christian social reformer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa
DATE OF DEATH 22. May 2013
Place of death Genoa