Congregation of Subiaco and Montecassino

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Santa Scholastika near Subiaco, starting monastery of the congregation and working place of Casaretto

The Congregation of Subiaco or Sublazenser Congregation is a congregation of the Benedictine Confederation . It emerged from the Cassinese Congregation in 1872 and has been reunited with it since 2013 as the Congregation of Subiaco and Monte Cassino (Latin: Congregatio Sublacensis Cassinensis OSB ).

history

Dom Pietro Casaretto (1810–1878), founder and 1st Abbot General of the Congregation

prehistory

The foundation of the Congregation of Subiaco goes back to Pietro Casaretto (1810–1878). At a young age, Casaretto entered the Abbey of Santa Maria del Monte near Cesena, which was part of the Cassinese Congregation. In 1842 Casaretto was commissioned to maintain the Order's ownership rights to a parish in Pegli near Genoa , which was formerly looked after by Cassinese Benedictines, through his presence. Casaretto agreed, but asked for permission to set up a Benedictine community there with other monks. On November 6th, the Bishops' Conference approved the request and appointed Casaretto as “administrator priority of the Pegli priory” and approved the establishment of a novitiate by letter of December 12th. The great line that Casaretto had in mind for his small priory was already noted in this official document: "The perfect communion, the strict observance of the observance of the Cassinese Benedictine Institute" and in this form the plan was also approved by the Cassinese Congregation.

During his time in Pegli, Casaretto was already working on a plan to train monks to be missionaries. In 1846 the Holy See gave him permission to set up a school of mission for monks in San Giuliano. The school was later moved to Subiaco.

The Subiaco Province

In 1850 the Pope appointed him abbot at the Santa Scholastica Monastery in Subiaco. From Genoa he not only brought a multinational group of 15 novices with him, but also the idea of ​​a "new observance" which, among other things, excluded personal possession of money and only allowed the monk an absolute minimum of personal possessions - even before the proclamation as dogma in 1854 - called for a special devotion to the Immaculate Conception . Every year on December 8th, the monks of his monastery had to commit anew to consecrate themselves to the perfect community life (perfetta vita comune) .

Casaretto's dream of forming a separate province within the Cassinese Congregation came true in 1851 when the Holy See proclaimed the formation of the "Subiaco Province" on May 28th.

The new congregation

On May 8, 1852, the general chapter of the Cassinese Congregation elected him abbot praeses, an office he held until 1858. From 1858 he devoted himself again to his province of Subiaco. During this time he made the decision to found a new congregation. After meeting the abbots of the monasteries in the Subiaco Province, he formally asked the Holy See in Rome for the approval of the new congregation and its statutes. The request was approved on August 5, 1867, initially for a probationary period of ten years and entitled "Congregationis Casinensis a primaeva observantia" (Cassinese Congregation of the original observance) . Casaretto was appointed the first Abbot General.

Only when it was recognized as a separate congregation on March 9, 1872 did the new movement break away from the Cassinese congregation. The administrative division into provinces was based on the countries in which the monasteries were located.

Second Vatican Council

As a direct result of the Second Vatican Council , two principles were incorporated into the statutes of the Congregation - the pluralism of observance at the level of the monasteries and provinces and the principle of subsidiarity at the management level. In doing so, the international orientation of the congregation was taken into account.

The congregation today

According to its own information, the congregation currently includes 64 monasteries in all five continents and 45 women's monasteries. The seat of the General Curia of the Congregation is Sant'Ambrogio della Massima in Rome.

The current Abbot President since 2016 is Guillermo L. Arboleda Tamayo OSB, Abbot of the Santa Maria of Medellin Abbey. His predecessor, Dom Bruno Marin OSB, was abbot of the Praglia Abbey in Teolo near Padua.

In 2013 the Sublazese Congregation and the Cassinese Congregation were reunited; The new Congregation of Subiaco and Monte Cassino (Congregazione Sublacense Cassinese) is numerically and geographically the largest congregation of the Benedictine Federation.

Religious provinces

Tomb of Eugénie de Montijo in Saint Michael's Abbey (English province)

The order is divided into 7 provinces and a pro-province (as of March 2012):

  • Italian Province,
  • English Province,
  • Flemish-Dutch Province,
  • French Province,
  • Spanish Province,
  • Africa & Madagascar Province,
  • Vietnamese Province and the
  • Filipino Pro-Province.

In addition, some extra-provincial and associated monasteries belong to the congregation.

Abbot General and Abbot President of the Congregation

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General Procurators of the Congregation

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  • Colombano Canevello 1867-1880
  • Romarico Flugi d'Aspermont 1880–1890
  • Léandre Lemoine 1890
  • Domenico Serafini 1892-1896
  • Romarico Flugi d'Aspermont 1896–1904
  • Benedetto Lopez (Pro-proc. 1904-1912) 1904-1920
  • Emanuele Caronti 1920
  • Gerardo Fornaroli 1920-1923
  • Romualdo Simó 1923–1927
  • Atanasio Bagnara 1927-1928
  • Paolo Ferreti 1928-1938
  • Arsenio De Nicola 1938-1946
  • Pietro Celestino Gusi 1946–1947
  • Louis Arnal 1947-1953
  • Cyprien Copens 1953-1956
  • Louis Arnal 1956–1968
  • Giovanni Lunardi 1968–1974
  • Giuseppe Tamburrino 1974-1982
  • Giovanni Lunardi 1982-1983
  • Anselmo Bussoni 1983-1986
  • Fabian Binyon 1986-1988
  • Ireneo Sisti 1988-1989
  • Mayeul De Dreuille 1989-1999
  • Mark Hargreaves 2000-2001
  • Paolo Fassera 2001-2004
  • Christophe Vuillaume 2005-2007
  • Ghislain Lafont 2007-2009
  • Ambrose Flavell 2009-2011
  • Mark Hargreaves since 2011

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Congregation of Subiaco on the official website of the Benedictine Order (in English) and on the official website of the Congregation (in English); Accessed June 14, 2018
  2. ↑ Entry on the Benedictine order in the Catholic Encyclopedia on Catholic Online, as of February 29, 2012
  3. ↑ a b List of religious provinces on the official website of the Congregation of Subiaco (in English)
  4. ↑ Abbot Guillermo Arboleda Tamayo, OSB, Elected Abbot President of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation. Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ [1]
  6. ^ A b G. Lunardi: Giovinezza e formazione di Pietro Casaretto (1810-1843) in: Studia monastica, 14.2 (1972), p. 219 f.

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