Giuseppe Benedetto Dusmet

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Cardinal Giuseppe Benedetto Dusmet
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Giuseppe Benedetto Dusmet OSB (born August 15, 1818 in Palermo , † April 4, 1894 in Catania ) was a Benedictine , Archbishop of Catania and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church . In 1988 he was beatified by Pope John Paul II .

Life

The family of his father Luigi Dusmet Desmours had come to Sicily from Flanders in the Netherlands in the 18th century in Bourbon service, which is why he had a family name that was atypical for Italians. He was the eldest son of Luigi Dusmet and his wife Maria Dragonetti from Sicilian nobility and grew up in Palermo with his sister and four brothers . He was baptized on the day of his birth and received the following first names: Giuseppe Maria Giacomo Filippo Lupo Domenico Antonio Rosolino Melchiorre Francesco di Paola Benedetto Gennaro .

In 1824 Dusmet was sent by his parents to the monastery school of San Martino delle Scale near Monreale , which was run by the Benedictines . In 1832 his father took him back from school because his parents had not considered a spiritual career for their son and wanted to send him to a grammar school in Naples . However, since Giuseppe insisted on wanting to become a priest , he returned to school two years later, in 1834.

Dusmet entered the Benedictine order and took vows on August 15, 1840 in the Montecassino Abbey . During this time, Michelangelo Celesia , later abbot of Montecassino, who was also to be elevated to the status of cardinal and was one of Dusmet's best friends, had a great influence on his later life . On October 11, 1840, Dusmet was ordained a subdeacon by Archbishop Domenico Balsamo and a month later, on November 15, 1840, a deacon .

The date on which Dusmet was ordained a priest can only be roughly given today. It was probably September 15, 1841; presumably the ordination took place in Monreale. For the next four years Dusmet worked as a preacher , but also worked as a professor of theology and philosophy . In 1845 he was private secretary to Carlo Antonio Buglio , the abbot of Montecassino, with whom he other Benedictine abbeys in Caltanissetta and Catania visitierte . When Buglio was appointed Abbot of Santa Flavia in Caltanisetta in 1847, Dusmet followed him there.

On June 12, 1850, Dusmet was finally promoted himself when he was appointed prior of the Abbey of Santi Severino e Sossio in Naples. In the following years he directed two more monasteries. In May 1852 he became abbot of San Flavio in Caltanissetta and in 1858 of the monastery of San Nicolò l'Arena in Catania. When Italy became a kingdom on October 15, 1866 , some monasteries were confiscated, including San Nicolò l'Arena . Dusmet had to vacate his post.

On February 22, 1867 Dusmet was appointed Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Catania ; the episcopal ordination took place on March 10, 1867 by Cardinal Antonino De Luca in Rome . Co- consecrators were Pietro Gianelli and Giuseppe Maria Papardo del Pacco . In the same year, the Italian government returned the confiscated monasteries to the Church, including San Nicolò l'Arena . However, Dusmet had to wait until 1878 before the government gave him exequatur , i.e. full powers of decision.

Pope Leo XIII created it on February 11, 1889 . Finally, the cardinal , and delivered the new cardinal priests , the titular church of Santa Pudenziana .

Without ever having participated in a conclave , Dusmet died five years after his elevation to cardinal, on April 4, 1894, around 10:30 a.m. in the archiepiscopal palace of Catania. He was 75 years old. First he was buried on April 6, 1894 in the Catania cemetery. But ten years later, in May 1904, his remains were exhumed and buried in the Cathedral of Catania under a monument designed by the architect Filadelfio Fichera .

Giuseppe Benedetto Dusmet was a Grand Crusader of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

beatification

The proposal to beatify Cardinal Dusmet was made on January 7, 1931 by Carmelo Patanè , Archbishop of Catania, to Pope Pius XI. submitted. This was justified with the personal commitment that Dusmet had made during his time as Archbishop of Catania. Catania was hit twice by volcanic eruptions from Mount Etna . Dusmet is said to have devotedly cared for the poor and the sick, because each volcanic eruption was followed by a cholera epidemic.

On July 15, 1965, Pope Paul VI appointed him . finally to the Venerable Servant of God . It would be 20 more years before Pope John Paul II Dusmet was beatified on September 25, 1988.

His feast day in the Catholic Church is September 25th.

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SURNAME Dusmet, Giuseppe Benedetto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1894
Place of death Catania