Giuseppe Placido Nicolini

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Giuseppe Placido Maria Nicolini OSB (born January 6, 1877 in Villazzano near Trento , † November 25, 1973 there ) was a Benedictine and bishop and abbot of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

On March 25, 1893, Nicolini made his profession in a Benedictine monastery in Genoa and was ordained a priest on July 9, 1899 . After studying theology, he taught at the Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo in Rome and became abbot of Praglia Abbey . On August 18, 1919 Nicolini was by Pope Benedict XV. appointed Abbot Ordinary of the Private Abbey of Cava de 'Tirreni .

On June 22, 1928, Pope Pius XI appointed him . to the Bishop of Assisi . The Archbishop of Naples , Alessio Cardinal Ascalesi CPPS , donated him episcopal ordination on September 2, 1928; Co- consecrators were the Abbot Bishop of Montecassino , Gregorio Diamare OSB, and the Archbishop of Acerenza-Matera , Anselmo Filippo Pecci OSB.

As a council father, he took part in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council and remained in office until his death in 1973. He is buried in Assisi Cathedral.

holocaust

During World War II , Nicolini established the Assisi Network , a secret organization of Catholic clerics that offered Jews protection from the Holocaust during the Nazi occupation of Italy. Together with the Franciscan Rufino Niccacci , he was able to hide several hundred Jews in churches, monasteries and other church buildings from the Holocaust. Although these church rooms are usually closed to outsiders, Nicolini accommodated the persecuted Jews there and also granted them religious freedoms. In 1943 they were able to celebrate Yom Kippur together with the nuns there.

Pastor Aldo Brunacci was commissioned by Nicolini to carry out a rescue operation to provide refuge for the Jews. He was also entrusted with preparing forged travel documents to enable the Jews to leave Italy.

In 1977 Nicolini was declared Righteous Among the Nations .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Monsignor Giuseppe Placido Nicolini, Father Aldo Brunacci, Father Rufino Niccacci, Luigi Brizi and his son Trento: The Assisi Network. Yad Vashem, accessed June 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Nicolini, Giuseppe Placido
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nicolini, Giuseppe Placido Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop and Abbot of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Villazzano near Trento
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1973
Place of death Villazzano near Trento