ESCUDO DE LOS CONFALONIERI A CALENDASCO

LA HISTORIA BAJO LOS OJOS
CASSONATO DE MADERA
EL ESCUDO DE LOS CONFALONIERI
DE CALENDASCO

de Umberto Battini

      estudioso de S. Corrado y divulgador histór 

En el salón superior del castillo de Calendasco, se ha salvado milagrosamente la casona de madera del techo que está toda pintada con el escudo de armas de la casa de los Confalonieri.

Techo de madera del siglo XIV, así como el castillo.
Es el testimonio vivo, que aquí habitaron con orgullo, decorando los ambientes donde vivía diariamente. 

Junto al salón hay también una gran sala, también casona de la misma manera, que es la habitación del nacimiento de San Corrado dei Confalonieri en 1290! Y por supuesto, con los mismos escudos decorativos.

En mis estudios e investigaciones en el Archivo de Estado de Piacenza documenté muy bien parte de la historia del castillo y de los Confalonieri, y esto es legible en mi volumen "S. Corrado Confalonieri - I Documenti Inediti Piacentini" de 2006. 

castillo del siglo XIII de Calendasco que fue feudo de Confalonieri

Hoy las búsquedas han avanzado y mucho, incluso sobre la casa de los Confalonieri del ramo que ha habitado físicamente en Calendasco, dentro del castillo y los expondré en un próximo libro en el que estoy trabajando intensamente desde hace tiempo.

Este techo arqueado, es también una prueba enérgica de la presencia activa y muy noble de los Confalonieri aquí en este castillo de Calendasco: fueron feudatarios muy amados.
En cierto modo fuera de los esquemas de aquella edad media que nos hace creer que los feudatarios son todos desplazados o explotadores, y en el próximo volumen también se tratará este hecho.

Un hecho único es el de los Confalonieri en Calendasco que en ningún otro lugar del territorio piacentino donde habitaban residentes de la casa, podemos encontrar huellas profundas de su habitar como feudatarios avariados.

Un castillo defensivo pero al mismo tiempo habitado de forma estable por los Confalonieri, aunque esto nos puede parecer extraño hoy en día por el hecho de que este castillo, ahora desnudo, es espartano y masivo, pero los hechos y documentos de la época hablan diferente.
 
Umberto Battini 

estudioso de San Corrado y divulgador histórico

 

THE GURGULARE HERMITAGE

THE GURGULARE HERMITAGE 
HISTORIC PLACE OF CALENDASCO

detail of the entrance to the Romitorio medieval hospital "del Gorgolare" now private property

BY UMBERTO BATTINI
       POPULAR HISTORIAN

This text is part of a more substantial study, which appeared in newspaper articles in Piacenza and was published in books by the same Author

An interesting local historical question, but one that made headlines in volumes published in Rome and elsewhere a few centuries ago, concerns the hospital known as “of the gorgolare”, now incorporated into the small village of Calendasco.

We have done a careful search and it turns out that it was a place known both “geographically” and “topographically” as early as ’600 by well-known historians.
The first to deal with it in 1568 was the historian of Noto Girolamo Pugliese, in one of his study books dedicated to the patron saint of that Sicilian city, who holds his holy body.
In the village on the Po River in Calendasco, until a few years ago, although abandoned, there was still a mill on the Confaloniero stream, which had been completely intubated for several decades. 

 

Practically behind the current town hall built a century ago on the lawn annexed to the mill, as evidenced for example by the Napoleonic land registry.
The ancient place, still called “molino Baffoni” in 1800, which was its owner, had a water channel that turned at an angle right near the ancient medieval hospital. 
From this unmistakable sound of the waters, which broke in this curve, the particular and local name of “hospitio del gorgolare”, produced precisely by the gurgling of the waters.

Among the historians who mention the place, therefore also dear to San Corrado for its conversion, is an important volume published in 1935 in Macerata, written by the historian Raniero Luconi in which we read that “at the beginning of the fourteenth century there existed in Piacenza, in a place called Gorgolare, a community of hermits under the obedience of Friar Aristide” the superior of the small convent hospital for pilgrims in the village.

Also in a volume of the “Acta selecta” Franciscans published in Rome in 1944 “the hermitage of the Gorgolare is mentioned where S. Corrado Confalonieri took the habit at the hands of Brother Aristide”.

Another citation comes from the historian Raffaele Pazzelli who in the volume printed in Rome in 1958 by the General Curia of the Franciscan Tower cites verbatim, censoring all the tertiary places in Italy: “the third place whose memory has been handed down to us is the hermitage convent of Calendasco near Piacenza” located right next to the mill canal.

 

 BY UMBERTO BATTINI
        POPULAR HISTORIAN

 

This text is part of a more substantial study, which appeared in newspaper articles in Piacenza and was published in books by the same Author 

 

SHORT LIFE OF ST. CONRAD

SHORT LIFE OF ST. CONRAD
THE NOBLE FEUDAL LORD OF CALENDASCO

Calendasco Castle, owned by the Confalonieri family and now owned by the Municipality

 

BY UMBERTO BATTINI
HISTORIAN OF S. CORRADO AND POPULARIZER

This is a short life of the Holy Hermit Corrado Confalonieri, told succinctly.
He was born in 1290 in the castle of Calendasco, near the city of Piacenza, a place on the Po River.
His was a feudal family, living in the village castle, of the Guelph party and "soldiers" of the Bishop of Piacenza.
To hunt game, Corrado set fire to a forest in those places. The Lord of Piacenza, in that Middle Ages, was Galeazzo Visconti, a Milanese and Ghibelline.

A poor farmer is blamed for the fire. Corrado doesn't let that innocent man be brought to death. He admits guilt before Galeazzo Visconti and is ordered to pay damages. 

The Confalonieri family of Calendasco gives Corrado his share of the inheritance, with this money he pays the debt.
He becomes very poor, and with his wife they make a decision: she becomes nun Clarissa in Piacenza, he a tertiary penitent.

Saint Corrado retires among the Franciscan tertiaries to the small hermitage and hospital for pilgrims that was right in Calendasco.

16th-century painting in the church in Calendasco

 

He was welcomed in 1315, the year of the events, by Brother Aristide.

Around 1323 he left as a pilgrim for Assisi, Rome and then went to the Holy Land. On his return he stopped on the island of Malta, where however he was miserably hunted.

It disembarks at Messina, Sicily and heads towards the south-eastern part. He arrives in Noto, where he is welcomed into the pilgrims' hospital known as "di San Martino".

After a certain period he moved to the Valle dei Tre Pizzoni in Noto, where he lived inside a cave living as a hermit.

He will perform miracles while alive: he heals a very serious hernious child, then makes "Angels' Bread" appear, angelic bread inside the cave he gives to visitors.
This miracle also takes place before the Bishop of Syracuse, who was then also bishop of the City of Noto.

He died in the cave on February 19, 1351.
By popular fury he is made a Saint.
Over time, the church will also confirm this.
For centuries his body has been preserved in a silver Ark, which is kept inside the Cathedral of Noto, Sicily.

Calendasco has had him as the patron saint of the village for over four hundred years.

 

Ark contains the body of St. Corrado, preserved in Noto in Sicily

He was born physically in the village of Calendasco in 1290, and spiritually in 1315, retiring to the hospital of the Franciscan tertiaries.
In Noto he lived from 1343 to 1351 in Santità. In the city of Noto he is honored and venerated with 4 solemn processions during the year.
Saint Corrado Confalonieri, a Franciscan penitent hermit, layman and nobleman, who followed in Christ's footsteps on earth, in hiding and humility of life.

 

by Umberto Battini
historian of San Corrado and popularizer 

 

A VIDA DE S. CONRADO

A vida de São Conrado: do castelo à caverna

O nobre senhor feudal de Calendasco a Noto na Sicília 

 

pintura de S. Corrado na igreja em Calendasco (Piacenza) do século XVI

por Umberto Battini

historiador de San Corrado e divulgador 

 

E' citado como um "santo da neve" na tradição popular de Piacenza, devido ao fato de que a festa cai em meados de fevereiro, no dia 19. Ele foi um homem marcado desde a sua juventude por um infortúnio crucial que dará uma reviravolta inesperada em toda a sua vida.

A história de San Corrado Confalonieri é interessante e muito curiosa: casado aos vinte anos com Giovannina Vistarini di Lodi (em hagiografias antigas ela se chama Eufrosina), mas já da pesquisa arquivística realizada em 1611 aqui em Piacenza, uma "Joanna Confanonerii" foi encontrada no mosteiro de Santa Chiara em Piacenza, ainda viva em 1351 e que se acreditava "poderia ter sido a esposa de Corrado sem qualquer objeção".

Uma pesquisa contemporânea sobre os pergaminhos notariais nos Arquivos do Estado em Placência confirma plenamente esse fato: esta "Joannina" também está, de fato, listada entre as freiras e que, segundo a hipótese, foi transcrita como Eufrosina, mas isso permanece um fato secundário que não afeta a história humana do santo de Piacenza.

Os Confalonieri eram uma família de importantes e estimados soldados episcopais: na Idade Média eles tinham um privilégio, preservado por séculos: das "Informações" enviadas a Noto pelos jurados de Piacenza em 1611 aprendemos que "o mais antigo da linhagem" acompanhou a entrada do novo bispo da cidade, recebendo-o em uma "chinea branca".

O mais importante feudo que eles tinham era o de Calendasco, não muito longe da cidade, perto do Grande Fiume, com terras florescentes, bosques e vinhedos, tanto assim que lemos em documentos de arquivo do século XVI que eles trocaram terras com o pároco de Calendasco: eles cederam terras cultivadas perto da cidade e tomaram as terras paroquiais gerbianas, de nascente e propensas a inundações na área "Raganella".

 

Corrado nasceu naquele castelo em 1290, mas em 1315 - felizmente casado, mas ainda sem filhos - durante uma viagem de caça causou um incêndio, por razões triviais, para atirar a flecha entre os roedores com o objetivo de disparar a flecha fatal do topo do seu cavalo.

O incêndio devasta, queima estábulos e pequenas casas, e provavelmente há algumas vítimas: em Piacenza, o gibelino Galeazzo Visconti de Milão está no comando, suspeitando de um ataque ao seu poder: os capangas capturam um pobre fazendeiro para silenciar Visconti. O assunto parece resolvido, não é um ataque, mas apenas um incêndio devido à incompetência, e a forca aguarda os inocentes. Enquanto isso, o jovem Corrado atormenta-se, seguro na mansão de seu pai em Calendasco, onde ninguém lhe chamaria a atenção, mas sua consciência e os bons conselhos de sua esposa o levam a se apresentar na cidadela viscontesa de Piacenza, residência de Galeazzo, e confessar.

A lei daquela Idade Média previa para o "incendiariorum" a pena de morte certa, mas para um nobre o "Statuto civitate Placentiae" previa "apenas" o pagamento de danos. E assim acontece.

Corrado sofre a condenação de sua memória por parte de sua família: recebe sua parte da herança, paga e se encontra abandonado, sozinho com sua esposa, que também caiu de graça com aquele ato insano. Os Confalonieri, no entanto, permaneceram como senhores feudais de Calendasco durante todo o século XVI, até que "migraram" para Milão depois de 1586 à força após o infeliz evento da conspiração e do assassinato de Pierluigi Farnese, filho do papa Paulo III, em 10 de setembro de 1547. Giovan Luigi Confalonieri, senhor feudal de Calendasco, está entre os quatro apoiadores, e esse gesto mais uma vez custará caro a San Corrado; na verdade, o culto será proibido por cerca de 50 anos no feudo de Calendasco e em toda a área de Piacenza. 

 

Castelo de Calendasco, onde o santo nasceu em 1290

 

O fato é que, agora reduzido à pobreza, Corrado se dedicou à religião: sua esposa entre as freiras clarissas de Piacenza e ele entre os leigos franciscanos penitentes no pequeno hospital hermitage Francigeno não muito longe de Calendasco, chamado pelos antigos "dos gorgolares" pelo fato do canal do moinho na frente onde as águas rugiam.

Frei Aristide, que governou esta pequena comunidade franciscana leiga, recebe-o para dizer que a área de Piacenza foi o local escolhido para esta "terceira ordem". Também deduzimos isso da documentação histórica: em Piacenza, em 1280, realizou-se um grande Capítulo Geral de todos esses homens do norte da Itália e isso é indicativo de como esse ideal tinha tomado seriamente raízes aqui.

Depois de cerca de oito anos partiu, peregrino, frade leigo teritiário, a caminho de Roma e depois de Brindisi embarcou para a Terra Santa, depois de um longo período retornou via Malta e de lá desembarcou em Messina. Ele finalmente parte para a Sicília oriental e, tendo chegado à cidade de Noto, faz paradas para ser recebido no hospital de San Martino e vive por um certo tempo na Celle perto do castelo: mas desta vez ele tem que viver nas profundezas das muralhas, não é mais o filho do nobre Confalonieri, mestre do castelo de Calendasco.

Mas depois de um certo tempo decidiu viver em uma caverna muito espartana no vale rochoso dos três Pizzoni, longe da antiga Noto, e até sua morte em 19 de fevereiro de 1351 viveu como um eremita penitente e em plena santidade.

Ele realiza muitos milagres já na vida: principalmente cura crianças e, um fato surpreendente, faz pequenos pães quentes e perfumados aparecerem do "nada" que ele dá aos visitantes. Por último, mas não menos importante, o bispo de Siracusa é uma certa testemunha, até mesmo historicamente, que, maravilhado, pode saborear aquele pão angelical e "misterioso".

Na sua morte, Corrado, o Santo do Pão Quente, o gentil e corajoso eremita que vinha de longe de uma terra nos arredores de Piacenza, de uma pequena aldeia às margens do rio Po chamada Calendasco, foi aclamado como santo pelo povo, mas o bispo de Piacenza só deduziu isso através de pesquisa em 1617.

a caverna de Noto, onde ele viveu até 1351

 

Desde a vida confortável de um conterrâneo reverenciado e aclamado, até a vida rústica e simples de um eremita, uma necessidade por tudo, longe da sua terra natal, dos seus entes queridos, amadurecido na fé e confiança na religião cristã: do castelo à caverna, da vida penitente e esquecida à memória que pertence à Glória do Céu.

E depois de séculos, sua memória ainda está viva em Noto, a cidade adotada onde repousa o Santo Corpo, enquanto em Calendasco seu centenário patrocínio também pode ser discernido naqueles muros de tijolos vermelhos do grande castelo, que acariciam a igreja paroquial ao lado dele, muito antiga e rica em suas efígies, de relíquias ilustres veneradas.

Umberto Battini

historiador de San Corrado e divulgador 

 

IM JAHR 1547 DIE VERSCHWÖRUNG

DER NACHKOMME VON SAN CORRADO CONFALONIERI TÖTET IN PIACENZA, ZUSAMMEN MIT ANDEREN GEEHRTEN, DEN SOHN VON PAPST PAUL III

DER FEUDALMÖRDER 

das Schloss von Calendasco (Piacenza), wo der Confalonieri wohnte

 

von Umberto Battini
          historischer Popularisierer 

Ich gehe, töte sie und komme zurück.
Giovanluigi Confalonieri. Feudatär.
1547 Tag 10. September. Von Calendasco nach Piacenza sind es etwa 5 Meilen.
Die Straße, die vom Dorf beginnt, führt über die Trebbia bis zur Malpaga und mündet in der "Landstraße" der Mönche.
Etwas weiter oben befindet sich die Zone S. Eufemia, hier hat der Confalonieri mit seinen Brüdern einen Palast.
Das verlangt 'per Gesetz' der neue Herzog, Sohn des Papstes, Herzog mit vielen, zu vielen Ideen für einen alten Feudalherren, der an das Land und die Landschaft gebunden ist.

In der Stadt erwarten ihn weitere edle Freunde, jeder mit seinen eigenen Machtbestrebungen. In Giovanluigi reicht es, das ländliche Wildleben zu bewahren, so erscheint er uns zumindest im Vergleich mit den anderen Verschwörern.
Für die Adligen ist es nicht schwierig, in den Palast einzutreten.
Die anderen, die sich mit ihm verschwören, haben größere Ziele.
Die vier verlassen ihre kleine Gefolgschaft und werden von ihrem Herzog Pierluigi empfangen.
Die Stilettate beginnen. Wenige Augenblicke und der Sohn des Papstes ist tot.
Es passiert, was passiert: die Geschichte von Piacenza und die italienische Geschichte der damaligen Zeit erzählen und beschreiben diese wahnsinnige Episode gut. Jeder liest es nach seinem Gutdünken.
Epilogum: Neununddreißig Jahre später muss Giovanluigi Confalonieri (er hat bereits einen Vorfahren, Santo in Sizilien, in Noto, von dem die Hagiografen geschrieben haben) "pflichtgemäß" seine Besitztümer von Calendasco verkaufen.

Eine eher politische als rechtliche Enteignung, es reicht ihm nämlich aus, nach Mailand zu emigrieren, neununddreißig Jahre nach dem Mord, mit seinem großen Gefolge, und dort unablässig zum Justizkapitän zu werden.
Gerechtigkeit ist geschehen!
Mehrmals in diesen Jahrzehnten haben die Farnese ihm mit Erschießungen Rache geübt, er hat es immer geschafft! In seinem Lehen von Calendasco lebt man letztlich nicht schlecht.
Ein Heiliger im Himmel ist da, auch ohne es zu wissen.
Und dann können nicht alle Heilige werden. 

Die Welt hat sich weiter gedreht. 

Und sie dreht sich immer noch.
 

von Umberto Battini
         historischer Popularisierer

 

 

STORY ABOUT THE PO RIVER

THE RIVER
MEDIEVAL ANECDOTES

 

BY UMBERTO BATTINI
       HISTORICAL POPULARIZER

 

The years between 1200 and 1300 in the Piacenza Middle Ages tell us almost in detail about the dispute over the rights of passage on the Po River between the nuns of Brescia and the Municipality of Piacenza.
More or less in front of the city - not as we understand it today - was the port, that is, a barge for docking ships sailing up or down the Po River, so there was also a bridge, obviously of attached and removable barges, and a ferry that served to pass from bank to bank just like the bridge.

 

These were the three services that were provided and which were at the ease of the nuns of Brescia who were happy with the full amount of everything that was paid by the people of Piacenza. 

In turn, the delegates of the municipality of Piacenza always contracted these services for a fee.
Practically, as we say today, medicine is paid for by the patient, who in this case we see is the one who had to use this service on the river.

 

BY UMBERTO BATTINI
       HISTORICAL POPULARIZER

 

 

LOVED FOR CENTURIES

FEBRUARY IS THE MONTH OF THE PATRON SAINT
THE OLDEST CULT DEDICATED TO SAINT CONRAD
THROUGHOUT THE DIOCESE OF PIACENZA SINCE 1600
AND IT'S JUST CALENDASCO'S

THIS IS A DOCUMENTED HISTORICAL FACT

 

 

by Umberto Battini
historian of S. Corrado and popularizer

 

interior of the church of Calendasco (Piacenza)

 

The church is a Corradian treasure chest:
the mighty San Corrado frescoed in 1971 in the apse, the 18th-century painting hanging on the wall, the chapel and altar of S. Corrado in the nave of the church, with the majestic 17th-century painting, the 1907 statue and the Cilio donated by the people of Netini in 2015.

And then from the documents published by Umberto Battini, we know that until 1971 the church contained many frescoes dedicated to the Patron Saint, unfortunately covered with the current dull yellow.

And the gift of relics of Saint Corrado directly for the church of Calendasco, made by the Bishop of Noto, Monsignor. Blandini in 1907 and another relic sent by Msgr. Vizzini in 1927.
All this with the original Netine papers preserved in the church archives and published by Umberto Battini, historian of San Corrado Confalonieri.
These are some of the historical evidence of the sole and exclusive cult of Calendasco.

 

We know that since 1617 he has been the official patron, mentioned in the documents.
Only in the 1980s was the modest church dedicated to the Holy Hermit founded in Piacenza.
In Piacenza, an altar with a painting and frescoes from 1613 was visible in the cathedral, but only devotional, in recognition of the Saint of Piacenza, while the title of Patron was only in the town of Calendasco, as confirmed.
These are data to keep in mind, to highlight the historical truth that deserves due consideration.  

 

by Umberto Battini
historian of S. Corrado and popularizer

 

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DOCUMENTS OF THE HOSPITALE FRANCIGENO

THE ARCHIVE PAPERS STATE IN PIACENZA
23 notaries found in 1998
referring to the Calendasco hospital

 
 

Below is a portion taken from the book
by Umberto Battini published in 2005 (who found the unpublished notaries)
"Saint Corrado Confalonieri the Seeker of God"
with a historical-critical analysis of the places of Calendasco
who saw the Patron Saint of the village present 

 

THE LEGAL-SOCIAL EXISTENCE OF THE CALENDASCO HOSPITAL, BUILT ALONG THE VIA FRANCIGENA ROAD, ON THE STRETCH OF THE OLDER Placentia-Ticinum ROAD, is provided by paper documents found in the Notarial Collection of the State Archives of Piacenza.

These are various pieces relating to the 17th century, part of the Special Diplomatics, the one reserved for Private Writing. 

Notarial papers that are valuable and which report in the protocol, text and escatocol those characteristics of greatest importance of the act and its relevance to the structure itself.

The analysis of Latin words, of which all the acts are composed, opens the doors to understanding the place and the territory.

Where it reads "SUBTUS PORTICHUS HOSPITII DICTI LOCI" or "IN LOCO CALENDASCHI DUCATO PIACENTINO IN HOSPITIO DICTI LOCI PORTICHUS VERSUS" or even " IN LOCO CALENDASCHI….IN HOSPITIO STRATA PUBLICAM VERSUS". 

There is a clear reference to HOSPITIO, that is, a place suitable for the shelter of people and animals in tow, a hotel, a place of hospitality for the poor traveler and it is no coincidence that even today, although in letters that are now almost illegible and erased by time, above the arch of the entrance portico there are traces of an inscription saying: "HERE WE OFFER ACCOMMODATION AND STABLE". 

It was therefore a place of continuous, daily hospitality for the occasional traveler but also a place of assistance to the destitute, to the least of the place.

The documents relating to the Hospital of Calendasco give the exact geographical location of the same, saying "STRATA PUBLICA VERSUS".

 

In the Latin term "STRATA PUBLICA" it stands for MAIN STREET, the most important street, the one that connected the Borgo di Calendasco to the city.

The documents relating to the Calendasco Hospital are mostly drawn up under the portico of the same, and it was and still is, located on the side of the main road, "STRATA PUBLICA VERSUS". 

Studies report that the Franciscan Tertiaries had many hermitages in Italy such as the one called 'al gorgolare' of Calendasco, where, driven by the desire for perfection, under the guidance of a superior of their own choosing, they dedicated themselves to the service of the sick, poor and pilgrims at some public hospital or hospice.

Umberto Battini 
historian of S. Corrado and popularizer
 
This above is just a short excerpt from the book
"Saint Corrado Confalonieri the Seeker of God" by Umberto Battini published in 2005 with the Preface by Cardinal Tomas Spidlik SJ 
 
if you copy cite the source 

 

FRANCIGENA AND PORTS ON THE RIVER PO

CALENDASCO DE SUPER PADO
The fords according to historical documentation

by Umberto Battini
local history scholar and hagiographer of San Corrado Confalonier

First of all, it must be said that studies on Kalendasco are and are continuing.
And indeed, new and important historical data have emerged that confirm two things: the Roman road leading to Pavia, the ancient Lombard and Frankish capital, had the river pass right in Calendasco, then Soprarivo also came.

It was discovered in black and white that in addition to the well-known Soprarivo passage, the one opposite the town was also active; today we identify it with the locality of Masero, a few hundred meters from the village.
I must say that it is the oldest and most historic passage, dating back to the Lombard era, the one in the town, confirmed by Lombard parchments from the Milanese area. 
Even the rights of passage of the river, the fishing rights on the Po and on the various waterways, on the mill canals and even on the wells are granted by Barbarossa: I'm still talking about the small port of the town!

In fact, as late as 1700 we know of the ports of Soprarivo, of the port of Botto which remains where the Masero is today, another passage was to the Mezzano and a ford was attested in Cotrebbia Vecchia. 
Obviously we are citing the fords relating to this very specific area, which however, according to what has emerged, was strategically very interesting if Lombards, Franks and then even Barbarossa took the trouble over the centuries to maintain the rights of this passage next to the town of Kalendasco!
In short, there is something to be said, but I want to be brief and reserve the in-depth analysis and citations of the proceedings for a future study.
Happy francigena everyone!

Umberto Battini
local history scholar and hagiographer of San Corrado Confalonieri

 

 

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SAINT ROCH QUELQUES QUESTIONS

SAINT ROCH
DE NOMBREUSES INCONNUES HISTORIQUES
Voici quelques curiosités

par Umberto Battini 
        HISTORIEN ET DIVULGATEUR   

 

 

Essayons de nous poser quelques questions sur les questions du Saint-Roch et aussi sur celles qui concernent son séjour ici dans le Piacentino.

Nous savons bien que les questions sur les dates de naissance et de mort sont débattues et incertaines, mais en tout cas sur les faits historiques il y a à réfléchir et ils ne changent pas d’une virgule s’il a vécu au début 1300 ou après la moitié de ce siècle.

Question 1 :

comment se transmet-il et dans pas peu de textes attention! qui a pris domicile près de Sarmato dans une cabane au milieu de la végétation non loin de la rivière Trebbia ?

À Sarmato, il y a le fleuve Pô au nord et à environ 5 km à l’est la rivière Tidone tandis que la rivière Trebbia est à environ 15 km plus à l’est près de Plaisance.

Question 2 :

pourquoi dans certains textes on parle de Sarmat et d’une grotte pour l’hébergement?

Probablement un héritage poétique? Ici, dans ces zones de grottes près du fleuve Pô, il n’est pas possible d’en trouver la trace géographiquement.

Question 3 :

Était-il un tertiaire franciscain ?

Il semble que oui, parce que le pape Paul III l’a inscrit dans le catalogue officiel du troisième ordre régulier de saint François en 1547 avec une bulle la « Cum a nobis ».

Lorsque cela se produit, c’est parce que du matériel historique est présenté et étudié et approuvé par le Saint-Siège, même à ce moment-là, ne soyez pas si naïfs pour croire que le pape se réveille le matin et seulement parce que l’Ordre tertiaire lui demande cet acte, Le pape fait comme s’il buvait un verre d’eau !

 

Question 4 :

Pourquoi le culte n’est-il approuvé par le Saint-Siège qu’en 1629 ?

À propos de l’approbation officielle du culte religieux de saint Roch faite par le pape Urbain VIII en 1629, il s’agit d’un acte officiel du Vatican qui reconnaît ce culte depuis longtemps mémorable rendu au saint, car c’étaient les évêques locaux qui avaient ce pouvoir et cette prérogative, peut-être même avec le simple consentement du Saint-Siège.

Urbain VIII surmonte donc ces difficultés passées en plaçant le sceau du Vatican de l’Église universelle sur l’antique vénération !

Questions qui ont déjà quelques très bonnes réponses à notre avis mais qui sans doute peuvent être plus détaillées juste pour comprendre davantage et mieux : de toute façon S. Rocco reste un puissant Intercesseur qui a réellement vécu ici, dans ce monde qui est le nôtre, sur cette terre, et dans le Piacentino il a passé une partie de sa vie!

Que ce soit au début des années 1300 ou quelques décennies plus tard, peu de choses changent !

Et les questions restent.

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IN THE NOTO CAVE

IN THE GROTTO OF THE NETINA VALLEY
WITH THE ANCIENT CITY IN THE BACKGROUND

Saint Corrado Confalonieri Franciscan penitent hermit 

di Umberto Battini
 historian of S. Corrado and popularizer 

immagine creata con AI 

After about eight years, around 1323, he left the hermitage hospital of Calendasco, a pilgrim, a lay teritiary friar, on his way to Rome and then from Brindisi he embarked for the Holy Land. After a long period he returned via Malta and from there then landed in Messina, it was 1343.
He finally sets off towards eastern Sicily and, having reached the city of Noto, stops to be welcomed in the hospital of San Martino and lives for a certain time in the Celle near the castle: but this time he has to live in the depths of the walls, he is no longer the son of the noble Confalonieri, master of the castle of Calendasco.

But after a certain time he decided to live in a very spartan cave in the rocky valley of the three Pizzoni, far from ancient Noto, and until his death on 19 February 1351 he lived as a penitent hermit and in full-blown sanctity.

He performs many miracles already in life: mainly heals children and, an astonishing fact, makes small, hot, fragrant loaves appear from “nothing” that he gives to visitors. 

Last but not least, the bishop of Syracuse is a certain witness, even historically, who, stunned, can taste that angelic and “mysterious” bread.

Upon his death, Corrado, the Saint of Warm Bread, the gentle and courageous hermit, who came from far away from a land on the outskirts of Piacenza, from a small village on the banks of the Po River called Calendasco, was acclaimed a saint by popular acclaim. However, the bishop of Piacenza only deduced this historical fact through research in 1617.

From the comfortable life of a revered and acclaimed castellan to the rugged and simple life of a hermit, a need for everything, far from his native homeland and his loved ones, matured in faith and trust in the Christian religion: from the castle to the cave, from the penitent and forgotten life to the memory that belongs to the Glory of Heaven.

And after centuries, his memory is still alive in Noto, the adopted city where the Holy Body rests, while in Calendasco his centuries-old patronage can also be discerned from those red brick walls of the great castle, which caress the parish church on its side, very ancient and rich in its effigies, of venerated illustrious relics.

Umberto Battini
historian of S. Corrado and popularizer  

 

 

IL PO A LUGLIO

ESTATE E SICCITA'

A FARNE LE SPESE LE COLTIVAZIONI

DA IRRIGARE 

Anche a luglio il Po mostra la crisi idrica, con un livello d'acque che a Piacenza segnala un -77 centimetri sotto allo zero idrometrico. Una manciata di centimetri e poi sarà secca storica, superando quella dell'anno 2022. 

In realtà con i suoi alti e bassi, lo storico di livello è stato superato ma poi ripreso, ma ad ogni modo siamo a quel limite e gli immensi sabbioni lo provano: tutto l'alveo, fino alla foce soffre.

E soffre il comparto agricolo per irrigazione, anche se per ora, non ci sono problemi alle profonde falde.

E sempre a Piacenza si segnala una portata di appena 177 mc/s praticamente il Po è quasi fermo. E la centrale Enel che è allo sbarramento di Isola Serafini, ha sospeso la produzione elettrica per mancanza d'acqua.

La grande Pianura Padana sta soffrendo, mentre il Grande Fiume scorre molto lentamente, intorbidito. 

nella foto di U B un immenso sabbione del Po in luglio che segnala il grande calo d'acque