. native of Santa Croce del Sannio (Benevento), belonged to the order of Somaschi (named after their first foundation in Somasca in the town of Vercurago). He was appointed bishop of Molfetta, Giovinazzo, Terlizzi 30 September 1921, when he was pastor of the church of St. Martin in Velletri, and consecrated by Pope Benedict XV on 1 November that year at the Cathedral of St. Clement of the same city. He made his entrance into our city on Nov. 5 of that year and adopted as a heraldic motto: "mightily and disposing" (strongly and smoothly, or with strength and sweetness).
man was energetic, rigorous and impulsive, intransigent and rigid; quality often aroused antipathy in people that he often went on, lay or clergy, both in public and in private, even during the liturgical functions.
We can say that his episcopate was centered in the construction of four essential points to which he devoted himself with patience and gentleness to be in line with its motto:
During his episcopate, relations with the Confraternity of the deaths were anything but serene. Contrary to the waste in the festivities, as over-attachment to the processions before Easter, Joy Bishop, from the beginning of his episcopal office had tried to implement a downsizing of these traditional rites, acting with determination and dexterity.
An example of such conduct is found in an "edict for Lent 1927, he signed on February 22, 1927. Here is the text:
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"The Death of the brothers ordered to adjust the processions of the Virgin Mary of Sorrows in the following way. In Friday's passion brought in procession to the group of the Pieta, as if to indicate the theme of the drama of suffering that came to represent. On the night of Friday to Holy Saturday instead lead Our Lady of Sorrows with the cross without Jesus and all other statues with you according to custom, taking care that the procession bait in time to return at the appointed time. "
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currunt Mala tempora! (bad weather run!) Was said by many that the exhaustive reading and laconic statement bishop. What is the "ratio" of this edict? For Mons.Gioia, the fact that on Holy Saturday is carried in procession on the Dead Christ in the lap of Mother when, according to the chronology of events, was already in the grave, was a frog who could not swallow. On the other hand, the administrators of the dead were adamant in their centuries-old tradition: the Madonna of Friday's passion was and had to be of Sorrows
's edict of Bishop provoked negative reactions in both the brother of Death, is in the same population of Molfetta. "In the dead cheménnìmme neue, Idde SCESS to cheménné to the prìevete and the muneca de la Cappecciàiene" (In Death commanded us, he went to command the priests and monks of the Capuchin), said the brothers of the black bag. In this uncompromising stance, echoed the general population: "Re precessiàune nen ze chéngene, Ménzegnòre SCESS to cheménné or paiàiese da'ddó to venéute" (The processions are not changed, my lord was going to rule the country whence he comes).
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Therefore, the order given by the edict was never executed. In later years he could get what the bishop was the half-hour before the time of exit of the procession: that the release of S. Peter at 23 rather than opens at 23.30 and the output of the Pieta rather than opens at 23.30 midnight. In this way the output of the group of the Madonna and Christ in her womb would be returned in chronological time on Friday and Saturday of Easter. But
Mons.Gioia gave for not winning, not resigned to the idea of \u200b\u200bhaving to abandon its innovative proposals so patiently waiting for the moment when he would give checkmate Archconfraternity of Death and the people of Molfetta. And the opportunity presented itself in the Easter of 1934 when Pope Pius XI (born Achille Ratti) concluded the Extraordinary Jubilee of the Redemption opened with a splash "quod Nuper" of January 6, 1933 to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the death and resurrection of Christ. The momentoculminante of that Jubilee was the canonization of St. John Bosco (1815 - 1888), founder of the Salesian congregation.
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The Confraternity of Death, under the priory Onofrio Vito Binetti, with its own statement, he changed the timing of the processions as follows:
March 23 (Friday of passion) at Exit 18 of Our , following the traditional path;
March 24 (Saturday before Palm Sunday) out of pity and after traveling via death, via the Square, a stretch of the course and return to Dante Cathedral. Here he remained for three days by an animated three days of prayers preached Mons.Vittorio Councilor, Bishop of Ascoli Satriano and Cerignola, former apostolic preaching
March 27 (Holy Tuesday) afternoon at six in the Pietà was reported in the Cathedral the Church of the Purgatorio, Dante along the course, via S. Angelo, Via Sergio Pansini, Via S. Benedict, via S. Domenico, Corso Dante, Purgatory Church. It was a solemn procession, attended by: the bishop, the civil authorities with the mayor Stefano De Dato, the cathedral chapter with the Archdeacon Mons.Felice Carabellese, the Regional Seminar with the Rector Rev. Peter Ossola the diocesan seminary, the Friars Minor of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Martyrs with the Guardian, Padre Gaetano Spina, the Capuchin Fathers, the various Catholic associations and confraternities, and all the clergy;
March 31 (Holy Saturday) to 'a night, out of SS. Our Lady of Sorrows in place of the Pieta, with the other statues venerated in the church of the Purgatory.
At least one Easter, Archbishop Gioia he could claim victory. L 'next year (1935) He died in an attack of angina pectoris. "Dum soul east, spes est" (As long as there 's life there' s hope), would Cicero (Ad Atticum).
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