{"id":20769,"date":"2016-03-06T12:30:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.constantinianorder.net\/?p=20769"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:34:18","slug":"the-month-of-mercy-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svil.constantinianorder.com\/en\/the-month-of-mercy-3\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MONTH OF MERCY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bisignano, 6th<\/sup> March 2016.\u00a0 <\/strong>After the town of Paola it was the turn of the centuries-old town of Bisignano, homeland of the \u201c humble friar\u201d, to host the third meeting of the \u201cMonth of Mercy\u201d, a solidarity project for the benefit of the needy people of the Region.\u00a0 The distribution of essential items, donated by Esselunga S.p.A., took place at the charming thirteenth-century Convent-Sanctuary of Sant\u2019Umile da Bisignano (second Saint of Calabria after Saint Francis of Paola).\u00a0Upon arrival the Delegation was warmly welcomed by Msgr. Luigi Falcone, Ecclesiastical Knight of Grace, Official of the Vatican Secretariat of State and also a man of great faith and vast culture.\u00a0 Msgr. Falcone is known for his studies and numerous publications on the history of the Mezzogiorno between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age, and also on the history of his Bisignano where he manages the Museum of Sacred Art and presides over \u201cIl Palio\u201d Study Centre.\u00a0 In the same Sanctuary, following the distribution of the goods, the solemn co-celebration of Holy Mass took place, officiated by Father Antonio Martella, Guardian of the Convent-Sanctuary, together with Msgr. Luigi Falcone and Don Espedito De Bonis, parish priest of San Giacomo Apostolo in San Giacomo d\u2019Acri.\u00a0Father Martella, during his homily, warmly greeted and thanked the Order representatives.\u00a0 He then went on to say a few words about Sant\u2019Umile, drawing a parallel between the Constantinian Order\u2019s mission and the Saint\u2019s teachings which are those of humility and solidarity in respect of the least of God\u2019s people who he has chosen to bewilder the \u201cwise\u201d and the \u201cpowerful\u201d of this world. Charity made him popular with everyone: friars, people and the poor who he used to help by handing out to them what Providence would give him.\u00a0The Delegate, Nobile Dottore Gianpietro Sanseverino of the Barons of Marcellinara, for his part, thanked all those present and in particular the Order of Friars Minor for their hospitality and Nobile Dottore Giuseppe Spizzirri Marzo, recently appointed Representative \u00a0of Cosenza, for the impeccable organization of the event.<\/p>\n

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Bisignano, 6th March 2016.\u00a0 After the town of Paola it was the turn of the centuries-old town of Bisignano, homeland of the \u201c humble friar\u201d, to host the third meeting of the \u201cMonth of Mercy\u201d, a solidarity project for the benefit of the needy people of the Region.\u00a0 The distribution of essential items, donated by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delegation-of-calabria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svil.constantinianorder.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svil.constantinianorder.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svil.constantinianorder.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svil.constantinianorder.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svil.constantinianorder.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/svil.constantinianorder.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59545,"href":"https:\/\/svil.constantinianorder.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20769\/revisions\/59545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svil.constantinianorder.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svil.constantinianorder.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svil.constantinianorder.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}