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  • December 3rd, 2014 – Sicily’s Delegation –

    CO-Cross-150x150Sicily – Wednesday, December 3, Celebrations of S. Francesco Saverio the Sicily’s Vicar CEO of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George with the Knights Vincenzo Nuccio, Domenico Scapati and Antonio Regina, attended the Holy Mass celebrated by Father Antonio Porretta, Constantine’s chaplain, at the St. Francesco di Paola’s Church. The Constantinian chaplain Father Giorgio Terrasi concelebrated.

    The participation of the Constantinian Knights was desired by thr vice provincial of the the Padri Minimi of S. Francesco di Paola, Father Saverio Cento, he is also a Constantine’s chaplain, on the occasion of his name day.

    After the religious cerimony, in the sacristy’s halls, has been celebrated Father Saverio with a simple refreshment.

  • December 1st, 2014 Special Day for Novara’s students

    CO-Cross-150x150Novara – Monday, December 1st, the Representative of Novara and Verbania, the Knight Andrea Padulazzi gave to the school “Contessa Tornielli Bellini”, high school insitute that gives hospitality to needy students of Novara’s district, a range of musical instruments to develop the project “El sistema” born in Venezuela and promoted in Italy by the unforgettable Maestro Claudio Abbado.

    The Institute school in fact about a year ago wanted to join the project “El sistema”, but only thanks to the generosity of the novaresi Knights this project finally realized.

    “El sistema” is an ambitious and visionary project, which was born in 1975 from the creativity and determination of the musician Jose Antonio Abreu. It’s been over 30 years since Abreu gathered the first 11 children from the streets of one of the poorest neighborhoods of Caracas, and gave them       an instrument to let them play together in a garage. Today, “El sistema” is a program of free music education, it is a network known around the world and it is a model of social evolution.

    The Master Abbado showed in Italy a project inspiring to “El sistema” which apires to rescue the youngest from disadvantaged conditions and social marginality through the teaching of music and the opportunity to place  them in youth orchestras. The music has to become “the red thread through the labyrinth of the suburbs.”

  • December 1st, 2014 – Sicily’s Delegation –

    CO-Cross-150x150Castelvetrano – Monday, December 1st, 2014. At the Hotel Palace Altea lounges in Castelvetrano (TP) took place a lunch of Sec. AIAS-Onlus organization of Castelvetrano attended by more than 220 people.

    The Chairmanship get the Sicily’s delegation Constantinian Knights to be close and support  the foundation.

    The Order with his highest representative CEO Dr. Di Gianni, after the prayer and the blessing of the Constantinian chaplain Msgr. Gaspar Tortorici, gave a greetings and handed over to the association chairman Prof. Angela Puleo the commemorative medal of the Centenary Constantinian.

    It also handed over a delegation’s certificate of merit to both Prof. Puleo and to Comm. Dr. Elio Zuccarello, who always supported the disabled belonging  to  AIAS-Onlus. The Comm. Zuccarello recalled as always, the Sicily’s delegation, cooperated with AIAS also through the gift, made some years ago, of eight assisted wheelchairs for the disabled of the association.

    The Knights attending: Knight Grand Master of Cerimonies Dr. Grace A. Di Janni, Comm. Dr. Elio Zuccarello, (local representative) Dr. Giuseppe Grandinetti, Dr. Michele Salerno, Mr. Centonze Antonino (Councillor com.), Dr. Giuseppe Lipari, Mr. C. Notarianni, the ecclesiastic Knight Msgr. Giovanni Tortorici in addition to meritorious Mr. Pia Messina-Lentini and Dr. Vincenzo di Cristina.

  • 2nd December 2014 – Sicily’s Delegation –

    02-12-14 nuove briciole di salute le famiglie che stanno per ricevere i prodotti per i figliMonreale – Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014. In Monreale, on the 2nd of  December, His Excellency Monsignor Archibishop Michele Pennisi, Sicily’s Prior Constantinian, allowed to distribute in the 300’s tower hall close to the Maria SS Agonizzanti’s Church, the foodstuff for the children in between 0 and 3 years old. The food, diapers etc. were purchased by the Knights, the volunteers and the deserving that always help the delegation in this philanthropic’s commitment.

    It is important to recall that the initiative is in co-operation with the Archdiocese of Monreale.

    Thanks to the volunteers, skilfully directed by Dr. Lia Giangreco and the Knights present, Antonio di Janni, Vincenzo Nuccio, Salvatore Romano, have been helped about 40 families

    New Crumbs of Health are a rib of the project “The Hunger of our neighbor,” which is very close to the Grand Master H.R.H. Prince Charles of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro

    In the middle of the month there will be a distribution in Piazza Armerina and before the Holy Christmas another in Monreale. “The hunger of our neighbor” is the unitary and humanitarian project that the Order wants to pursue, coordinating all his strength, through the work of all delegations, in Italy and in the world.

    Our “neighbor” is to be intended in the evangelical sense of term that is our “neighbor”, who is a  needy one who lives around us and very often no one notices.

    To the Constantinian Knights is required indeed to contribute to the basic needs of these needy in accordance to the Christian spirit which every Knight must be inspired by.

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  • The vicarious Delegation of Rome-New Year’s Holy Mass

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    Rome-10th January 2015. The vicarious Delegation in Rome of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George on the occasion of the New Year planned a Holy Mass attended by Knights and Dames from Rome.

    The Holy Mass was conducted by the Very Reverend Monsignor Karel Kasteel, Ecclesiastic Grand  Cross, together with the Reverend Military Chaplain Don Rosario Scibilia in the Memorial Chapel at the Center “Alti Studi della Difesa”-Salviati Palace,   Vice Admiral Rinaldo Veri attending , he is the chairman of CASD and generously hosted the vicarious Delegation of Rome on the occasion of the important liturgical event.

    The vicarious Delegate of Rome Marquis Giorgio Mirti della Valle welcomed the Members of the Constantinian Order with the usual wishes for the New Year; he was surrounded by part of the Delegates’ council: the noblemen Fabrizio Ratto-Vaquer, Maurizio Bettoja and Vincenzo Giusti, Earl Vito Garzilli, Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe De Lorenzo and Commander Arturo Cannavacciuolo.

    After the Mass on the same premises a feast was held at Foresteria della Lugara where Knights and Dames from Rome drank a toast to the New Year although everybody was sorry about the hitch that prevented S.A.S. prince Manfred Windisch-Graetz, new Delegate for Rome and Lazio of SMOCGS, from joining them in the beginning of the constantinian activities.

    Among the members, the attendance ought to be reported of Admiral Mario Tarabbo,  Earl and Countess Bontemps de Montreuil,  Avv. Figus-Diaz with his wife Donna Paola Naselli dei Duchi di Gela, Don Francesco Marigliano di Caracciolo, Barone Fabrizio di Giura and Baronessa Maria Francesca di Giura Grimani, noblewoman from Veneto, volunteers and friends of the Order.

    The vicarious Delegate of Rome, Marquis Mirti della Valle, reminded all the participants of the strong work of the Delegates in 2014 and informed that more and more charity activities would be planned in 2015. In addition, he asked all the volunteers, though they were not members of the Order yet or they were absent, to be available to support people in need in the Urbe with the several charity and aid activities of Rome vicarious Delegation.

    The Glorification of the Holy Cross that is the aim of the Constantinian Order of St.George is achieved nowadays  over all through the Christian help to people morally and financially in need as the very Reverends reminded during the Holy Mass.

     

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  • Full day for the Delegation of Naples and Campania

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    Naples – 9th January 2015. Friday 9th January was a full day for the Delegation of Naples and Campania. In the morning the first “Solidarity Day” was held at the nursery school “Costanza di Chiaromonte” run by the cooperative “Il Ricco”.

    The Delegate of Naples and Campania of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St.George Marquis Pierluigi Sanfelice di Bagnoli joined the event in order to confirm the support of the Order to the officially recognized schools that are in straits and he especially thanked the Chairwoman Antonella Rubertucci.

    This event witnessed the mobilization of the Knights and the Meritorious Donors of the Order for the 2-6 year old children who were given toys, a toy library, a lot of educational material and more than a hundred bags of sweets with the logo of the Order “the Cross”, all this excited the children. Furthermore, at the entrance of the toy library a stone tablet with the Constantinian Cross was set and was blessed by parson Don Elio De Podo. At the end of the event the Chairwoman Antonella Rubertucci thanked the Order for the offers and fixed the second day of solidarity. The mayor Micaela Fanelli, the members of the local government and the teachers of the school joined the event.

    A note of fun was the children’s moving naivety, they heard of the Knights oncoming visit and thought they would meet men with armour and on horseback! At the end of the meeting the children sang the traditional song welcoming the town of Riccia while the Delegate signed the guest book on a precious mid-nineteenth-century find.

    Marquis Sanfelice gave great importance to this meaningful visit full of ideas promising developments of this friendship and cooperation.

    On 9th January afternoon the marquis Sanfelice di Bagnoli went to Sepino, a town at the borders of Campania invited by the mayor Filomena Zeoli to join the mass conducted by the Archbishop of Lucera, H.E. Francesco Zarillo in honour of the Patron Saint Cristina.

    Before the Holy Mass at 4p.m. the “Festa delle Candele” was held with the distribution of the symbolical “Cartoccio”, then at 4.30p.m the authorities were welcomed in the boardroom. St.Cristina’s celebration is a yearly really appreciated event by the inhabitants of Sepino.

    On this occasion also the mayors of the surrounding towns meet to celebrate the Saint. The mayors of the union of the towns of Valle del Tammaro with their gonfalons were present that is to say: besides the Mayor Filomena Zeoli- the mayor of Cercemaggiore Vincenza Testa, the mayor of Cercepiccola Michele Simiele, the mayor of San Giuliano del Sannio Angelo Codagnone, the mayor of Mirabello Sannitico Luciano di Biase, the president of Campobasso province Rosario de Matteis and the president of Molise region: Paolo Frattura.

     

     

     

    The event was attended also by the representatives of the Order of Malta such as Professor Alberto Bochicchio and Mr Rocco Sileo, of the Holy Sepulchre such as the headmaster Carmine De Camillis, of the Cisom of Matera area, the Bojano military police force commander Michele De Chiara, the commander and the policemen of the police station in Sepino, some rangers of the forestry station, the commander and some traffic wardens from Sepino.

    After the Mass a reception was held in the town hall attended by all the guests and the mayor gave the Delegate Marquis Sanfelice a copy of a IV A.C.-century point of a spear from the Samnite age as a memory of the meeting.

     

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  • Vice Delegation for Lazio is always close to suffering people. Humanitarian activities during New Year’s celebrations.

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    Rome-8th January 2015. New Year’s celebrations were really intense at the Vice Delegation for Lazio. In respect of H.R.H. Prince and Grand Master Carlo di Borbone delle Due Sicilie’s orientation, “the hunger of our neighbour”, several charity events were held and a lot of activities were carried out abroad as well, in warring territories where a lot of our brothers are serving in temporary missions.

    In South Lazio where there is a high number of exiled families or in need, over eighty quintal food supplies were collected and handed out to about three hundred families. These activities have had a strong media impact with the public Authority’s acclaim and complacency.

    We have contributed to the starting up of soup kitchens together with Caritas Diocesana, who we always cooperate with all year long, remembering that poor people, as anyone else does, “need to feed every day”. Important aids have been sent also to warring territories. Some of our brothers in the army who were in peace mission in Afghanistan, have carried on their voluntary service, which they usually do in the Delegation, with these people tormented by a long and cruel war. The humanitarian operation took place in the village of Jibrhil coordinated by our applicant who is finalizing his training to receive the constantinian Grand Cross, Cap. Cosimo Epifani, member of the Italian contingent in Herat.

    The end of the year’s activities included also the attendance to the liturgical ceremonies and the organization of performances. In St.Pietro cathedral in Minturno these events were held: the concert of the Little Wind Band composed of several from 5 to 16 year old children who performed a rich international repertoire of Christmas carols, an opera concert based on musical Christmas topics, a festival of Choirs from the district of Aurunco. In the organization of these events our Delegation was supported by the National Association of the Italian constantinian Knights, at whose head is the lawyer Marquis Giuliano Buccini Grimaldi who has also given his high patronage.

    Moreover, the Epiphany event in Formia was highly attended and broadcast on Lazio channels including a show of comedians, magicians and singers followed by the distribution of presents to the children.

    Aid activities to poor people and activities supporting religious bodies have been carried out by Puglie Delegate, nobleman Prof. Ugo Patroni Griffi together with the Abruzzi Delegate, Marquis Dr. Baldassarre Castiglione who we thank for his fondness and friendship.

    A lot of other activities less noticeable but definitely successful, have been carried out by our brothers in the city where they live also in cooperation with Caritas and with the other local religious communities who don’t receive humanitarian aids by the central organisations and must provide to the needs with unsolicited raisings and personal donations.

     

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  • APPOINTMENT OF THE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL DEPUTATION

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    Rome – January 6, 2015. H.R.H. Prince Charles of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro, Grand Master appointed Deputies of the Royal Deputation: H.R.H. Princess Anne of Bourbon Two Sicilies Dame Grand Cross of Justice – H.R.H. Prince Laurent of Belgium Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of Justice – H.I.R.H. Archduke Martino d’Asburgo d’Este Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of Justice – H.S.H. Prince and Duke Pierre d’Arenberg Knight Grand Cross of Justice – H.S.H. Prince Charles Henri de Lobkowicz Knight Grand Cross of Justice – H.E. Francisco de Asis Gonzalez de Regueral y de la Roza, Grandee of Spain Knight Grand Cross of Justice – Baron Francesco Sanseverino di Marcellinara Knight Grand Cross of Justice – Count Raffaele Leonetti di Santo Janni Knight Grand Cross of Justice – H.E. Sir Anthony Bailey Knight Grand Cross of Merit

     

  • THANKS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE MAGISTRAL HERALDIC COMMISSION AT THE END OF THEIR OFFICE

    croce costantiniana 2014 OKRome January 6, 2015. HRH Prince Charles of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro, Gran Master  thanked at the end of their office as Members of the   Magistral Heraldic Commission, Their Excellencies Count Don Carlo Marullo di Condojanni Prince of Casalnuovo  and Prince Don Alessandro d’Aquino of Caramanico for their commitment during  these years and for the dedication in their working in the Council.

  • THANKS TO DEPUTIES AT THE END OF THEIR OFFICE

    croce costantiniana 2014 OKRome January 6, 2015. HRH  Prince Charles of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro, Gran Master  thanked,  at the end of their office  as Members of the Royal Deputation, Count  Don Carlo Marullo di Condojanni Prince of Casalnuovo, Prince Don Alessandro d’ Aquino of  Caramanico and the Marquis Gaetano Sersale for their commitment  during  these years and for their deication in working in the Order.