Friday, February 7, 2014

Unification of the Capuchin Provinces of Trento and Venezia, Friuli - V.G.

We call the marriges between provinces who are uniting because of lack of vocations and falling the number of Capuchin Provinces in Europe. It is a good fraternal move and Idea which is very much supported by many though there are some who don't like and accept the Idea. But this is the only solution that we have at hand. May be God wants us to come together and witness solidly to the Capuchin Charism. It is an indication to the new provinces who are heading towards the bifurcation. It may be good to study and reflect well the move to divide. Hope it does not happen what is happening in our European provinces. Let us pray to St. Francis that he intercedes to send many new vocations.
Meanwhile, let us rejoice with these two provinces at their unification. Let us wish them all the very best for animation and administration of the friars and the province. Below, you will find a short history of these two provinces. It is titled as "Our Walk or Way"
Our Walk - Way
1526 Fr Paul from Chioggia, former Friar Minor , joins fr . Matthew Bascio . He collaborated in the drafting of  ordinances Albacina (1529)
1535 Capuchin presence in Verona . In the same year , the General Chapter of Saint Eufemia in Rome , is erected the ' Venetian Province of St. Antonio ' , comprising the territories of the three Venetian and part of the Duchy of Mantua. Foundation of some convents , among the first Verona and Schio (VI)
1537 : first provincial chapter in Schio (VI)
1539 : First settled in Venice, in a small hermitage
Diffusion of the Capuchins in Veneto, Friuli V.G. (1564 Udine) and Trentino (1576 Rovereto , Arco 1585 ) . In 1729 the friars of the province were 830 in 45 places.
1734 : for political reasons happened the separation from the monasteries of the Venetian Province Matovano and Trentino , with the subsequent erection of their cases .
1784 : Tridentine constitution of the province with the title of ' Holy Cross '
1998 : beginning of the collaboration between the provinces of Trentino and Veneto in the initial training
in subsequent years the collaboration will extend to other areas and will involve also la Provincia of Lombardy .
In 2011 , the respective provincial chapter of Trento and Venice approve a motion in 2014 which provides for the unification of the two provinces into a single religious province .
Comes to be reconstituted the original province of Veneto , erected by John from Fano in 1535 and comprising i territories of Friuli -Venetia Giulia , Mantova, Trento and Venetia.
3rd march 2014 will be born a new Province of venzia of the Friars Minor Capuchin, titled as Holy Cross under the protection of St. Leopold Mandic

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