Umberto Pasquale

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Umberto Maria Pasquale SDB (born September 1, 1906 in Vignole Borbera , † March 5, 1985 in Rivoli ) was an Italian religious priest and writer .

Life

Umberto Maria Pasquale grew up in Val Borbera . At the age of thirteen he came to the Salesians of Don Bosco in Valdocco in Turin and studied there until 1921. He wanted to join the order and go on a mission, but his father would not allow it. Instead he switched to the seminary of Stazzono in the diocese of Tortona . However, in the early 1930s he left seminary and returned to the Salesians. After the novitiate in Borgomanero and his first profession , he registered as a missionary for Colombia in 1932 . Instead, his superiors sent him but in 1933 temporarily to Lisbon in Portugal , where he on 21 December 1935 at the Patriarchate Lisbon by Manuel Cardinal Gonçalves Cerejeira for ordained priests was.

Appointed novice master in 1937, he founded a novitiate house in Mogofores . In the forties he moved to Porto and started the Salesian publishing house "Edições Salesianas" in Portugal.

He met the mystic Alexandrina Maria da Costa (1905–1955), who was beatified on April 25, 2005 by Pope John Paul II . On September 8, 1944, he became her spiritual guide for four years. He encouraged her to keep a spiritual diary and soon became her biographer.

Pasquale returned to Turin in Piedmont in 1948 , although regular correspondence between them continued until da Costa died in 1955.

After the Archbishop of Braga entrusted him with the organization of the beatification process for Alexandrina Maria da Costa in 1965 , he returned to Portugal between 1967 and 1973. After he brought the documents he had collected to Rome on May 7, 1973, he worked in the Italian publishing house in Rivoli near Turin and lived there until his death.

Works (selection)

Translation from Portuguese into Italian

  • Alexandrina Maria de Costa: Scritti spirituali. Turin 1965.
  • Cristo Gesù in Alexandrina. Turin 1973 (autobiography).

author

  • Alexandrina , Turin 1960 - in Spanish ( memento of October 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), in English
  • Voleva chiudere l'inferno: scritti, commenti storici e ascetici, testimonianze sulla serva di Dio, Alessandrina Maria Da Costa , Alba 1968
  • Giacinta, la pastorella di Fatima , Turin 1973

literature

  • Maria Rita Scrimieri (Ed.): Il Monello di Dio. Don Umberto Maria Pasquale, Salesiano. Elledice, Turin 2006, ISBN 88-01-03628-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publisher's website ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.edisal.salesianos.pt
personal data
SURNAME Pasquale, Umberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pasquale, Umberto Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian religious priest and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vignole Borbera
DATE OF DEATH March 5th 1985
Place of death Rivoli