Dolindo Ruotolo

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Dolindo Ruotolo

Dolindo Ruotolo OFM (born October 6, 1882 in Naples , Italy ; † November 19, 1970 ibid) was a Neapolitan Franciscan priest , tertiary and is venerated by the Catholic Church as a servant of God .

Life

Ruotolo was born the fifth of eleven children of the mathematician Raffaele Ruotolo and Silvia Valle. His parents came from the Neapolitan and Spanish nobility. He had many health problems in his childhood and also experienced economic tensions in the family. His first name refers to the Italian word for pain: "dolore". In 1896, when his parents separated, he was sent to the Scuola Apostolica dei Preti della Missione with his younger brother Elio , and three years later he began the novitiate . On June 1, 1901, he made his vows and applied unsuccessfully for a posting as a missionary to China .

After his ordination on June 24, 1905, he was appointed professor of seminarians at the Scuola Apostolica and cantor of Gregorian chant . He was briefly sent to Taranto and then to Molfetta , where he was involved in the reform of the seminary.

When he was called back to Naples on October 29, 1907, he declared that he was no longer interested in the position and was subsequently suspended from his priesthood . Accused of being an "eretico formale e dogmatizzante" (heretic according to form and doctrine), he went to Rome to submit to the judgment of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith : he was questioned for four months without renouncing his opinions. He was then permanently suspended. He had to undergo a psychiatric report, which, however, certified him mental health. On April 13, 1908, he was called to the Superior of the Congregation in Naples, who carried out an exorcism on him .

He was then sent to Rossano in Calabria ; on August 8, 1910, the motion to revise the suspension was accepted and two and a half years after the suspension he was rehabilitated. However, he was called to Rome again in December 1911 and then transferred to Naples . In 1921 he was convicted and suspended again and only rehabilitated on July 17, 1937.

He spent his life as a diocesan priest in Naples at the church of San Giuseppe dei Nudi , where his brother Elio was pastor. There he wrote the work Opera di Dio (Work of God) and the opera Apostolato Stampa .

plant

Ruotolo left the comment Commento alla Sacra scrittura in 33 volumes and a whole range of theological and ascetic and mystical writings, as well as several volumes of letters and autobiographical and doctrinal writings. The Commento alla Scrittura uses traditional exegetical methods and tries to balance the break between faith and science (frattura tra scienza e fede). He was then opposed by the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Pontifical Biblical Commission . At that time, the institutes were headed by Augustin Bea and Eugène Tisserant . His work was condemned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on an indictment from Alberto Vaccari , despite the defense of Giovanni Maria Sanna , Bishop of Gravina e Irsina , and Giuseppe Maria Palatucci , Bishop of Campagna .

In 1960 he had a stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body. He died on November 19, 1970. He was buried in the Nostra Signora di Lourdes church in Naples. Soon thereafter, saints were worshiped.

Adoration

Even during his lifetime he had a reputation for holiness. Pio da Pietrelcina had already said to a pilgrim who came to him: "Why are you coming here, you have Dolindo in Naples after all? Go to him, he is a saint."

The biographer Luca Sorrentino reports:

He was an amanuensis of the Holy Spirit , a wisdom from above, a miracle worker of no less greatness than Pio da Pietrelcina, a stigmatized Christ already in the name, a chosen son of the Virgin , enlightened by the wisdom of the Scriptures , a faithful servant of nothing nothing wanted to be in God and everything in God with people.

He is venerated as a servant of God and is currently in the process of beatification by the Catholic Church.

Works

  • Gesù, pensaci tu (Jesus, I believe)
  • Chi morrà vedrà (Who will die?; On purgatory and paradise )
  • Commento alla Sacra Scrittura (Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, 33 vol.)
  • Così ho visto l'Immacolata (This is how I saw the Immaculate)
  • Dalla sorgente rivoli di luce (the light flows from the spring)
  • Don Dolindo e il Sant'Uffizio (Don Dolindo and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; letter from Rome)
  • Epistolari (letters, 3 vol.)
  • Fui chiamato Dolindo, che significa dolore. Pagine di autobiografia , (I was called Dolindo, that means pain. Autobiographical pages) Sessa Aurunca-Napoli-Riano, 1972.
  • Fuoco che non riposa (fire that doesn't end).
  • I fioretti di Don Dolindo ( Florilegium )
  • Il piccone che scava brillanti (The ax that digs diamonds)
  • La dottrina cattolica (The Catholic Teaching Catechism )
  • Maria ... chi mai be tu? (Maria ... who are you?)
  • Nei raggi della grandezza e della vita sacerdotale (In the rays of greatness and in the priestly life)
  • Opuscoli (small works - sermons etc.)
  • Slanci di amore a Gesù ea Maria (Sigh of love for Jesus and Mary)
  • Una profonda riforma del cuore alla scuola di Maria (A profound change of heart in the school of Mary)
  • Vieni, O Spirito Santo! (Come on, Holy Spirit!)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Roberto de Mattei, Il Concilio Vaticano II. Una storia mai scritta , Torino, 2010, pp. 51–52
  2. ↑ Don Dolindo Ruotolo e l'atto eroico per le Anime del Purgatorio
  3. ^ «Perché venite qui, se avete don Dolindo a Napoli? Andate da lui, egli è un santo ». Chi era Padre Dolindo?
  4. ↑ Un amanuense dello Spirito Santo, una Sapienza infusa dall'alto, un taumaturgo di non minor presenza di Padre Pio da Pietrelcina, uno stigmatizzato di Cristo già nel nome, un figlio prediletto della Vergine iniziato alla sapele cheienza delle Scritture, un servo fedele cheienza delle Scritture, full essere il nulla del nulla in Dio e il tutto di Dio negli uomini. Luca Sorrentino

literature

  • Antonio Gallo, Un prete del Duemila , Napoli 1974.
  • Chi era Padre Dolindo? (Letter from Grazia Ruotolo , a niece of the priest)

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personal data
SURNAME Ruotolo, Dolindo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian priest
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples , Italy
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1970
Place of death Naples , Italy