Siro Borrani

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Siro Borrani (born October 3, 1860 in Ascona ; † July 30, 1932 there ) was a Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and church historian .

Life

Siro Borrani was the son of Carl Borrani and his wife Giuseppina Pancaldi Molo; he had three older and five younger siblings.

After studying at the Collegio Papio in Ascona, he attended the seminary in Como and was ordained a priest in 1885 . He was pastor in Campo Vallemaggia from 1885 to 1888 and in Losone from 1888 to 1900 .

From 1900 to 1902 he was the tutor of the royal family Borghese and then returned to Ticino . For a short time he was pastor in Comano and from 1903 to 1920 pastor in Monte Carasso ; from 1904 to 1917 he was also archivist for the diocese of Lugano and at the beginning of 1909 was appointed head of the excavations at the Gudo TI necropolis . From 1920 to 1926 he was pastor in Verscio , after which he moved back to his place of birth.

Since his youth he has devoted himself to researching and studying regional documents. Over time, he published numerous writings on mainly religious subjects, including Il Ticino sacro . For the Bollettino storico della Svizzera italiana and the Monitore ecclesiastico he regularly wrote articles on the local religious history.

Fonts (selection)

  • Brevi note intorno al Ven. Pietro Berno, nato in Ascona l'anno 1550, martirizzato in Salsete di Goa li 25 luglio 1583. Tipografia dell 'Ordine di Cavalletti e Bazzi, Como 1883.
  • Caselli Carlo Francesco da Carona, Arcivescovo di Sidda, Vescovo di Parma. 1886.
  • Prossima beatificazione del venerabile Pietro Berno, martire gesuita di Ascona. 1892.
  • Vita del Beato Pietro Berno: Note raccolte dal Prevosto Siro Borrani. Lib.cattolica, Lugano 1893.
  • Il Ticino sacro. Memorie Religose della Svizzera italiana raccolte dal sacerdote S. Borrani. Lugano 1896.
  • Genealogia della famiglia Pisoni d'Ascona dall'anno 1600 al 1897. 1897.
  • Sulla vita e sulle virtù di Francesca Pisoni . Tipografia Bodoniana R. Alderighi e C, Rome 1902.
  • Bellinzona: la sua Chiesa ed i suoi Arcipreti. C. Salvioni, Bellinzona 1909.
  • Bartolomeo Papio e il suo testamento. C. Salvioni, Bellinzona 1913.
  • L'oratorio della Madonna della Valle presso Monte Carasso: monografia storica. Arti Grafiche Arturo Salvioni fu Carlo, Bellinzona 1918.
  • Il santuario della Madonna della Fontana presso Ascona: Monograph. Casa d'arti grafiche G. Molteni, Lugano 1922.
  • Santa Sabina, venerata nella collegiata arcipretale di Ascona: Notes and documents. Ambrogio Airoldi, Intra 1926.

literature

  • Rodolfo Huber: Siro Borrani. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 4, 2003 , accessed January 13, 2020 .
  • Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1989, p. 17.
  • Giuseppe Mondada: Notes e documenti moncarassesi. Una monografia inedita di Siro Borrani. In: Bollettino storico della Svizzera italiana BSSI, Tip. e Lit. Carlo Colombi, Bellinzona 1989, pp. 59-62.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The necropolis of Gudo (Ticino). Swiss Antiquities Gazette No. 13, 1911, accessed on June 24, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Pubblicazioni - Patriziato di Ascona. Retrieved June 24, 2019 (it-IT).
personal data
SURNAME Borrani, Siro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Ascona
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1932
Place of death Ascona