Antônio Malan
Antônio Malan SDB (born December 16, 1862 in San Pietro di Cuneo , Cuneo , † October 28, 1931 in São Paulo ) was an Italian religious , missionary and Roman Catholic bishop of Petrolina in Brazil .
Life
On October 29, 1882, his vocation to religious life was clarified with the Salesians of Don Bosco in a personal conversation with Don Bosco . He had returned to Italy from Paris for military service. He attended mass in the Maria-Hilf-Basilica , which Don Bosco himself presided over that day. This conversation took place afterwards, and a few weeks later Malan entered the novitiate of the Salesians in Sainte Marguerite near Marseille . After his first profession, he worked for a few years in French branches and studied philosophy and theology until he left for Uruguay in 1889 on a Salesian mission . There he received on 25 October 1889 in Montevideo by the Salesian Bishop Giovanni Cagliero the priesthood . There he stayed at the side of confrere Luigi Giuseppe Lasagna until 1894 . At the end of this year he was selected with Don Balzola and Don Solari for an evangelization project among the Indians of Mato Grosso and therefore went to Cuiabá . When Lasagna was killed in a railway accident in November 1895, Malan wanted to continue his work. In a few years he founded various missions among the Bororo - Coroado . By 1906 he completed 14 major expeditions, including a four-month mission trip over 2500 kilometers (500 of them on horseback, 700 in canoe) from August 28, 1901 to the forests in the east of Cuiabá.
On May 25, 1914, he was appointed prelate of Registro do Araguaya in Brazil and titular bishop of Amisus . The episcopal ordination took place on July 26th of the same year in São Paulo by the Apostolic Nuncio in Brazil, Archbishop Giuseppe Aversa ; Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Campinas , João Batista Corrêa Néri , and the Bishop of São Carlos do Pinhal , José Marcondes Homem de Melo .
On January 3, 1924, he was appointed the first bishop of the newly established diocese of Petrolina . He held this office until his death. He died in the São Paulo hospital, to which he was admitted on October 24, 1931 because of acute kidney disease. His body was transferred to Petrolina and buried in the local cathedral.
Web links
- Entry on Antônio Malan on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Obituary in the Bollettino Salesiano from January 1932 ( Memento from December 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Italian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Malan, Antônio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Malan, Antônio SDB |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian religious, missionary and Roman Catholic Bishop of Petrolina |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Pietro di Cuneo , Cuneo |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1931 |
| Place of death | São Paulo |