Natalia Dallapiccola

Natalia Dallapiccola (born June 27, 1927 in Fornace , Trentino , † April 1, 2008 in Rome ) was an Italian activist and co-founder of the Focolare Movement .

biography

In June 1943, Dallapiccola joined Chiara Lubich , the founder of the Focolare Movement, and lived with her in the first Focolare in Trento on Kapuzinerplatz . A few years later she moved to Rome.

In 1959 she helped open the Focolare in what was then West Berlin . Bishop Otto Spülbeck had asked Chiara Lubich for support because the Catholic hospital in Leipzig urgently needed medical staff after many academics had fled. In 1962 she went to the German Democratic Republic, disguised as a “cleaning assistant” to a West German doctor, and from there helped to build up the Focolare Movement in the Eastern Bloc. After the fall of the Wall, the movement expanded into the Soviet Union . Dallapiccola led the movement in the Eastern Bloc and organized the conspiratorial meetings and services of the Focolare until 1976. In that year she had to return to Italy for health reasons.

In Italy she increasingly took care of interreligious contacts and established them with the religious leaders of all world religions. In 2005 she gave a lecture at the first Forum of Christians and Muslims in Rome. She represented the standpoint of the Focolare Movement at various interreligious meetings and congresses until her death in April 2008.

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SURNAME	Dallapiccola, Natalia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian activist of the Focolare Movement
DATE OF BIRTH	June 27, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fornace , Trentino
DATE OF DEATH	April 1, 2008
Place of death	Rome