by prof. Trident Cosmo.
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St. John is the last statue, before the Pietà, to go out in procession on Holy Saturday, the church of the Purgatory.
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. carriers belong to the Congregation of St. Anthony of Padua and wear: shirts, cap, and mozzetta track with white flakes on the metal plate mozzetta depicting St. Anthony of Padua.
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. meantime let us see who is this extraordinary character.
Son of the fisherman Zebedee, John was the first disciple of John the Baptist, then, at his death, he came with his brother James the greater the number of the twelve apostles.
"As (Jesus) walked along the Sea of \u200b\u200bGalilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. He said to them: "Follow me, I will make you fishers of men." And they immediately left their nets and followed him. Going further he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. And they immediately left the boat and their father and followed him "(Matthew 4.18-22). Attention, therefore, do not confuse John the Baptist ...
Son of the fisherman Zebedee, John was the first disciple of John the Baptist, then, at his death, he came with his brother James the greater the number of the twelve apostles.
"As (Jesus) walked along the Sea of \u200b\u200bGalilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. He said to them: "Follow me, I will make you fishers of men." And they immediately left their nets and followed him. Going further he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. And they immediately left the boat and their father and followed him "(Matthew 4.18-22). Attention, therefore, do not confuse John the Baptist ...
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... with John the Evangelist:
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... the first son of Elizabeth and Zechariah, is the "forerunner" in charge of preparing the coming of Christ, the second son of Zebedee and Mary Salome, is the "successor" in charge of keeping the memory of Christ until the end.
San Giovanni is mentioned in some popular sayings molfettesi which show that the Baptist's question: "A Sen Gevénne Piggie chelùmme and émminele n'ghénne" (San Giovanni Fioroni take and eat it, that ripen in San Giovanni Fioroni) " A Sen Sen Gevénne chelùmme n'ghénne Biete fàieche appàiese " (at the San Giovanni Fioroni are ready to be eaten, St. Peter's figs are still hanging on the tree because unripe); " Quenne chiòeve Sen Gevénne King Castlewellan cadena n'dèrre " (When it rains in St. John the chestnuts fall first to be mature); "Sen Gevénne (24 Giuga.) méitetòere, Biete Sen (29 Giuga.) attacchatòere" (San Giovanni reaper, binder San Pietro); U Sen Gevénne nén ze néiegh'a nesciàune " (The San Giovanni is not denied to anyone), that is," comparizio (comparatio) for baptism, confirmation and weddings, must not refuse because it is a sort of "creation" of new kinship, common among neighbors and acquaintances or useful to strengthen existing kinship ties. San Giovanni Battista is thus the guardian of the "comparizio" because according to the Gospels Christ baptized in the Jordan River. Therefore, every person who shall be the protection of the baptized as such, even if manual is not the executor of baptism, is related with the man who, according to the Gospels, not only announced and anticipated the work of Christ, but even with that ceremony, become the threshold of Christianity, he recognized the mandate of the Spirit. Every supervisory function to initiate a new form of life through the sacrament (Confirmation, marriage) has become the very definition of comparatio of baptism.
San Giovanni Evangelista, however, is quoted in another said, in rather colorful language, which is a real insult the traitors, who was Judas Iscariot "Sen Gevénne pìgghieu n'ghénne and makes u clamp venèiene dé n'ghénne" (San Giovanni take it by the throat and then throw the poison from the same)
St. John the Evangelist is traditionally considered the disciple whom Jesus loved, "author of the Gospel according to John, three letters and the Apocalypse, which in greek means Revelation. This prophetic book, the only New Testament, he was inspired by an angel "in the Spirit, the Lord's day, I heard inside me a loud voice like a trumpet, saying," What you see write in a book and send to the seven Churches ... "."
When a Samaritan village refused hospitality to Jesus, who was traveling to Jerusalem, John and James said: "Sir, do you want us to call down fire from heaven and consume them?" (Luke 9.54), words that suggest an ardent faith, mixed with impulsive and vehement reactions. John held a privileged position in the group. At the Last Supper, the disciple asked Jesus leans towards those who betray (from 13.23 to 26). E 'in the garden of Gethsemane and is probably "the other disciple who followed Jesus after his arrest, Peter, and he heard the latter denying Jesus three times, before the cock crowed (18.13 to 16). Unique among the apostles to be among women under the cross which Christ entrusted his mother's sorrow, saying, "Woman, behold your son." Then he said to the disciple, "Behold your mother" (19:26-27).
The Gospel passage is quoted from Dante's Divine Comedy (Paradiso XXV, 112-114):
San Giovanni is mentioned in some popular sayings molfettesi which show that the Baptist's question: "A Sen Gevénne Piggie chelùmme and émminele n'ghénne" (San Giovanni Fioroni take and eat it, that ripen in San Giovanni Fioroni) " A Sen Sen Gevénne chelùmme n'ghénne Biete fàieche appàiese " (at the San Giovanni Fioroni are ready to be eaten, St. Peter's figs are still hanging on the tree because unripe); " Quenne chiòeve Sen Gevénne King Castlewellan cadena n'dèrre " (When it rains in St. John the chestnuts fall first to be mature); "Sen Gevénne (24 Giuga.) méitetòere, Biete Sen (29 Giuga.) attacchatòere" (San Giovanni reaper, binder San Pietro); U Sen Gevénne nén ze néiegh'a nesciàune " (The San Giovanni is not denied to anyone), that is," comparizio (comparatio) for baptism, confirmation and weddings, must not refuse because it is a sort of "creation" of new kinship, common among neighbors and acquaintances or useful to strengthen existing kinship ties. San Giovanni Battista is thus the guardian of the "comparizio" because according to the Gospels Christ baptized in the Jordan River. Therefore, every person who shall be the protection of the baptized as such, even if manual is not the executor of baptism, is related with the man who, according to the Gospels, not only announced and anticipated the work of Christ, but even with that ceremony, become the threshold of Christianity, he recognized the mandate of the Spirit. Every supervisory function to initiate a new form of life through the sacrament (Confirmation, marriage) has become the very definition of comparatio of baptism.
San Giovanni Evangelista, however, is quoted in another said, in rather colorful language, which is a real insult the traitors, who was Judas Iscariot "Sen Gevénne pìgghieu n'ghénne and makes u clamp venèiene dé n'ghénne" (San Giovanni take it by the throat and then throw the poison from the same)
St. John the Evangelist is traditionally considered the disciple whom Jesus loved, "author of the Gospel according to John, three letters and the Apocalypse, which in greek means Revelation. This prophetic book, the only New Testament, he was inspired by an angel "in the Spirit, the Lord's day, I heard inside me a loud voice like a trumpet, saying," What you see write in a book and send to the seven Churches ... "."
When a Samaritan village refused hospitality to Jesus, who was traveling to Jerusalem, John and James said: "Sir, do you want us to call down fire from heaven and consume them?" (Luke 9.54), words that suggest an ardent faith, mixed with impulsive and vehement reactions. John held a privileged position in the group. At the Last Supper, the disciple asked Jesus leans towards those who betray (from 13.23 to 26). E 'in the garden of Gethsemane and is probably "the other disciple who followed Jesus after his arrest, Peter, and he heard the latter denying Jesus three times, before the cock crowed (18.13 to 16). Unique among the apostles to be among women under the cross which Christ entrusted his mother's sorrow, saying, "Woman, behold your son." Then he said to the disciple, "Behold your mother" (19:26-27).
The Gospel passage is quoted from Dante's Divine Comedy (Paradiso XXV, 112-114):
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"This is the one who lay upon 's breast
of our pelican, and these fue
on the cross of the great office"
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. Paraphrasing means: They (the apostle John) is the one who laid his head at the Last Supper above the heart of Jesus (Pelican), and he was chosen by Christ on the cross to the high office of the son of Mary. The legend tells that the pelican was a bird which, if they died young, they raised with his own blood, slashing his chest with his beak. It symbolizes Christ, who, with his blood, raises the death of humanity from sin.
John was the first men to reach the empty tomb, running beyond the call of Peter and Mary Magdalene, older and slower than him, but then waiting to get him first (20.2-6). E 'to side of the risen Jesus saddles shores of Lake Tiberias (21.7). Among the disciples then spread "the rumor that that disciple would not die" but that he would live until the coming of Christ in glory (21:23).
We know that John was an important figure of the early Church and who lived a long time. His brother James, however, died during the persecution of Christians by Herod Agrippa I. The last days of John's life are narrated by the oral tradition: after a long exile on the Greek island of Patmos (in greek: Πάτμος) was established with Mary in Ephesus (Turkey) where he died during the reign of Trajan, at the age about 94 years. It seems has survived all the other apostles and is the only one we know with certainty that he was martyred.
John is also the words of Dante (Paradiso XXXII, 127-129):
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"Those who saw all the grievous times
before he died, the fair bride
that was acquired with the spear and with clave
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That is, is he who, before he died, saw all the calamities and misfortunes ( serious all the time) of the Church ( of the beautiful bride ) that Christ purchased with his spear and the nails that pierced his body.
Until Easter 1926 was carried in procession the statue of St. John the Evangelist, the Neapolitan sculptor Francesco Verzella (dall'Arciconfraternita Death commissioned around 1829). The statue depicts the beloved apostle in prayer and contemplation with an eye to the sky and joined hands with fingers crossed.
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Until Easter 1926 was carried in procession the statue of St. John the Evangelist, the Neapolitan sculptor Francesco Verzella (dall'Arciconfraternita Death commissioned around 1829). The statue depicts the beloved apostle in prayer and contemplation with an eye to the sky and joined hands with fingers crossed.
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. At a meeting of the arch of Death September 19, 1926, the prior pro tempore, Giuseppe Peruzzi, made it known that the statue of St. John was eaten away by termites so that they can no longer be carried in procession, which is why he had made contact with Cozzoli for the construction of a new statue. The sculptor found it difficult to accept because the team to complete the War Memorial of Molfetta, but acceded to the request, and be subject to a more intense pace of lavoro.Preparò various sketches, as they intend to represent St. John's not with her hands clasped in prayer as it was before the statue, but in a different pose. But administrators insisted that the new statue had the same attitude. Otherwise it would not be willingly accepted by the population. Cozzoli, albeit reluctantly, had to bend. But the greatest obstacle interposed the Bishop, Monsignor Pasquale Joy. When news of the designation to Cozzoli by the Brotherhood of Death, administrators reiterated his point of view: they can not give the blessing with images of paper mache. After frantic meetings between Peruzzi and Cozzoli, it was agreed that: Cozzoli would shape clay into a statue of two feet, complete in every detail.
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. From this model a Venetian sculptor resident in Bari, an expert in wood reproductions, would have received the entire wooden statue, which was then colored Cozzoli. The work was well advanced, everything seemed to be going right, when the Venetian sculptor, who had shown signs of mental imbalance, went mad. He left the residence of Bari, leaving no trace behind. "There is no genius to madness if not stirred," says Petrarca ( Epistle metric Zoilo ). A link between genius and madness was already known to the ancients. An important example is the Roman poet Titus Lucretius Carus that crazy, the victim of an amorous passion, still unable to complete his great work "De Rerum Natura", taking advantage of lucid intervals. Seneca's statement that "there never was a genius without a little madness" has not yet been disproved. Even the psychological studies of the twentieth century have shown that about 25-30 percent of the great scientists have had some mental disorders, from schizophrenia to depression, paranoia. The same disease, as well as obsessions, anorexia and anti-social, have gripped many artists, writers, musicians, painters. It was with people like Rilke, Kafka, Goethe, Rousseau, Proust, Van Gogh, Schumann, Wolf, Pavese. Even Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, suffered from social phobia, which he kept under control by taking a drug that "loosens the tongue."
fact is that the Venetian artist, with his madness and unavailability, had created great problems for administrators is the arch at the same Cozzoli: time was running short, or another solution is envisaged. So Cozzoli performed throughout the statue of his hand and, like the others, papier-mache.
fact is that the Venetian artist, with his madness and unavailability, had created great problems for administrators is the arch at the same Cozzoli: time was running short, or another solution is envisaged. So Cozzoli performed throughout the statue of his hand and, like the others, papier-mache.
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Joy Bishop was sympathetic. Without denounce what he had said, persuaded to bless the new statue of St. John the Palm Sunday and was carried in procession on Holy Saturday 1927.
Joy Bishop was sympathetic. Without denounce what he had said, persuaded to bless the new statue of St. John the Palm Sunday and was carried in procession on Holy Saturday 1927.
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But he declared that, in this respect, one could not expect more from him further tolerance.
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At this point, the output of the canopy run by brothers the arch of Death, indicates that the output of the Pieta is imminent, just in time to sing in the church "Vexilla Regis prodeunt" Venantius Fortunato.
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. The canopy is eight auctions regents a blanket of luxurious velvet with gold stripes and fringe. On the front and rear can see the arch crest (a skull with two crossed shins), while the side is reproduced on a golden cross.
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* Text by the prof. Trident Cosmo.
* Photos coming from 'private archive of Dr.. Francesco Stanzione.
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