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Archbishop Pasquale Gioia, a bishop who did talk about

by Prof. Cosmo Trident.

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As already written in another post on this website ("An unprecedented event in the Holy Week Molfetta, 1934), Archbishop Pasquale Gioia, who held the our diocese from 1922 to 1935, he was a bishop and strict (not for nothing, before being elevated to the episcopal dignity, had been a monk of the Somaschi).

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primarily concerned to keep his flock away from the mistakes that threatened him, the bishop undertook to present Christian doctrine in a manner suited to the needs of the times, the speeches and writings were the peaceful weapons he uses and that it often makes nell'interlocutore feelings of disapproval. In a pastoral letter of December 12, 1926, addressed to pastors, prayer with wide dissemination, its point of view on the processions. Here is the text:
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church laws must be observed. And by the Rectors and Spiritual Fathers should also be noted by many confraternities, striving to return to the religious processions, as we are able to do in the Eucharistic procession and correcting them is opposed to the traditions of the Catholic Church and the same reason. Suffice it to mention the anomaly of the procession of the Madonna and Christ died in the early morning hours of Holy Saturday. Nothing could be more absurd. In this matter we will not allow others to enter because it's all that matters depends on the Ecclesiastical Authority. So we all know that we will not tolerate being exposed to the veneration of the faithful certain statues and pictures of paper or other that neither pity nor art can tolerate in the house of God Who will govern otherwise meeting oltrecchè punishment, a reprimand that will remain in the acts of the Holy tour.

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Another decision taken at the beginning of Gioia Bishop of the thirties, then thwarted in time, was to be celebrated in the Church of Purgatory and that of Santo Stefano, by their archconfraternities, the Mass in the "Last Supper "Holy Thursday, but without the repose urn of the Blessed Sacrament, that is, without putting Jesus in the "tomb". This is because the people who visited the churches and the Purgatory of St. Stephen, to admire the statues and comment on the decoration, it distracted from giving a fitting tribute of prayer and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. The bishop's decision was wise, if we think that today's visit to the "graves" became, with few exceptions, a real uproar: a crowd rowdy, irreverent moving from church to church, gay groups, without any consideration to the sacred site.

"Pilgrimage of the Diocese in Rome, with Mons.Gioia, in celebration of the Jubilee of the Redemption of 1933.

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addition, the bishop was an admirer and connoisseur of Gregorian chant and demanded that all priests, including the elderly, they were aware, he himself taught the seminarians, then subjecting them to tests of theory and making them perform in public executions.
His death was sudden, as recalled by Archbishop Leonardo Minervini, of blessed memory.
the morning of that fateful March 31 Joy Bishop was in the Cathedral to attend the Eucharistic liturgy of the fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare). The celebration took place regularly, there was the Lenten sermon with the memory the souls in purgatory and the singing of the "Dies Irae". Towards the end of the Mass, the bishop, and always scrupulously careful to mention the master of ceremonies, was behaving strangely. Something prevented him from continuing the ritual, he would sit and barely gave the final blessing. Returning to bishop, even with the sumptuous robes prelate, he fell fainting to the ground. It was a moment of great consternation among the seminarians and young priests. Meanwhile, in the Cathedral was celebrating Mass at 12 o'clock. In the choir there was a doctor, dr. Jerome Gadaleta which called urgently bishop, after a brief visit to the bishop and he had administered first aid, made a grim diagnosis: angina pectoris. " On a deck chair Joy Bishop was taken in his bedroom, occurred while he was also curate the canon of the Cathedral, Father Mauro Amato (incidentally, I do not understand why the bishop has not been taken to hospital, given his serious condition! ). Dr. Gadaleta returned in the afternoon, but finds the conditions of the invalid, suggesting to those who crowded the entrance corridor that, unless an unlikely reversal, to the early hours of the next day to Archbishop Gioia, would be the end. In fact, at dawn on April 1, the bishop passed away, leaving the faithful of the three dioceses in disbelief and all citizens of Molfetta Terlizzi and Giovinazzo.

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The Editor of "Light and Life," in commemoration of the late Bishop proposed to erect a worthy remembrance on the grave in which, in the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, had been buried her mortal remains.
Contributions and offered several, put together the money to erect the funeral stele, designed and built by sculptor Giulio Molfettese Cozzoli. The epitaph was composed by prof. Maurilio De Rosa, professor of letters to the Regional Seminar. This is the text:
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Christi hic quiescit / Paschalis JOY crs. / Melphict Ep. Terlit. ac Iuven. / On piandus in Aevum / ut hoc here delubrum / scholar populi concursu s fundamentis excitavit / vote capiat exequialia / mind secunda ac cords inoblito fidelium / Obiit Kalen. April. MCMXXXU
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Translation: In the peace of Christ here rests Pasquale Gioia Bishop of Molfetta Terlizzi and Giovinazzo Somasca Regular of the Congregation. Deserves to be supported forever, for he this time with love when the people rose from the ground up to receive votes and prayers with loving heart and mindful of the faithful. He died on 1 April 1935.
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On 2 April 1935 he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Molfetta Terlizzi and Giovinazzo Bishop Marcello Mimmi, Archbishop of Bari was he who passed the committee to erect the funeral stele and who completed the initiative. In fact, two years after the death of Archbishop Gioia, April 7, 1937, was inaugurated on "worthy memory", during a solemn Mass in suffrage, chaired by the new bishop, Achille Salvucci (December 1935 - March 1978). In addition to the people of the region was attended by nine bishops, the clergy of the three dioceses of the Episcopal seminarians and the region, members of Catholic Action, the authorities of all levels. After the Mass, held the commemorative speech by Bishop Francesco Maria Sanna, bishop of Gravina, talking about the life of a dear departed friend, which Bishop was Joy.
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On May 9, 1935, at 18, in the Church of Purgatory, on the initiative of the Theologian Rev. Don Thomas Maglione, a solemn funeral was held in memory of Archbishop Gioia, in the presence of a large number of brothers and Death in charge of the administration headed by Maria Corrado Poli (Component 1, James Palumbo, Joseph Mezzina 2nd Component). At the funeral ceremony also attended Catholic Action.

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Text and photos by the prof. Trident Cosmo.