Camillo Pace

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Camillo Pace (born May 16, 1862 in Paglieta , † 1948 in Pescara ) was an Italian Protestant pastor . He became known for his achievements in evangelization and, from 1930, for his announcements about the existence of a Protestant, anti-National Socialist resistance movement in Germany .

Live and act

In Pescara, Camillo Pace encountered Protestantism and the Brethren movement . There he also began to study theology and then deepened these interests in London and Plymouth .

From 1889 Pace was intensely committed to the evangelization of Abruzzo . In 1925 he moved from Pescara to Florence , where he took over the management of the “Istituto Comandi” orphanage founded in 1876 - a center for the education of orphans.

In 1928 he published a treatise on Augustine of Hippo .

From 1930 Pace was director of the newspaper Ebenezer of the Istituto Comandi. There he published articles on social and humanitarian activities and also gave the Protestant, anti-National Socialist resistance movement in Germany a voice. During his youth - before turning to the evangelical faith - Pace had been a member of a Masonic lodge . Because of this and because of his sermons against the war, he was accused of being an anti-fascist from 1939 and persecuted until his deportation to Calabria in 1942 . At the end of the war he returned to Pescara.

Camillo was the father of five children; among others Aurelio Pace, historian of African history by UNESCO and father of the artist Joseph Pace .

literature

  • Camillo Pace: San'Agostino. Vescovo d'Ippona, Dottore della Chiesa . Casa Editrice Sonzogno, Milan 1928 ( online ).
  • Marcella Fanelli: Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo . Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Turin 2001.
  • Giorgio Spini: Italia di Mussolini e Protestanti . Claudiana, Turin 2007 ( review by Andrea Diprose ).
  • Marcello Paris: Joseph Pace Filtranisme . Equitazione & Ambiente Arte, Rome 2008.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcella Fanelli: Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo , Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Turin 2001, p. 302.
  2. ↑ Cenni di storia del movimento delle assemblee dei fratelli in Italia, Chiese dei Fratelli in Italia, Dio è con te, paragraph 5 e 6
  3. ↑ Marcella Fanelli: Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo , Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Turin 2001, p. 270f.
  4. ↑ Le Biography, Camillo Pace, Associazione Storico Culturale Sant'Agostino
  5. ^ Giorgio Spini: Italia di Mussolini e Protestanti , Claudiana, Turin 2007, p. 234.
  6. ↑ Andrea Diprose: Rez.Giorgio Spini, Italia di Mussolini e Protestanti , in: Lux Biblica 6/2008, p. 177.
  7. ^ Marcella Fanelli: Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo , Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Turin 2001, p. 432.
  8. ↑ Marcella Fanelli: Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo , Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Turin 2001, p. 270.
  9. ↑ Marcello Paris: Joseph Pace Filtranisme , Equitazione & Ambiente Arte, Rome 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Pace, Camillo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian theologian, evangelist and orphanage director
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Paglieta
DATE OF DEATH 1948
Place of death Pescara