Vincenzo Regina Explained

Monsignor Vincenzo Regina (Alcamo, 9 May 1910 – Alcamo, 3 August 2009) was an Italian presbyter and historian.

Biography

He was a figure of the clergy in Alcamo. He was ordained a priest in December 1932, when Alcamo still belonged to the Diocese of Mazara del Vallo.[1] He devoted himself to believers and studies,[2] he also taught Letters at the Gymnasium for three years and dogmatic theology in the seminary of Mazara del Vallo from 1937 until 1944.[3]

A protagonist of the last 80 years in the history of Alcamo (as archpriest and parson for 47 years), he gave a stimulus to the Azione Cattolica and other parish associations.[4]

He was a consultant of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism and published several tens of books on the history, arts and representative figures of Alcamo, handing down, in this way, a patrimony of information for young people. Besides, thanks to his continual work of collecting, they could create the Sacred Art Museum in the Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption.[1]

In 2007, he published a new book with the title L'associazione antiracket e antiusura alcamese. Istituzione provvidenziale, an answer to the decalogue of the "perfect Mafioso" who discovered inside the den of the boss Salvatore Lo Piccolo.[5] In 2004, he had published another book along the same lines: Arpie del racket. Vampiri dell'usura with documents on the foundation of the Associazione Antiracket e Antiusura of Alcamo.[5]

The Sacred Art Museum

In the former premises of the Oratory of the Confraternity of Santissimo Sacramento (Very Holy Sacrament).[6] In the hall of the old Oratory, with a modern and appropriate lighting system, they have arranged, all by date, paintings, statues, Church furnishings, vestments dating back to the beginning of the 15th century and the second half of the 19th century.[6]

These artworks were collected by monsignor Vincenzo Regina, archpriest from 1944 to 1991; in accordance with the suggestions of Second Vatican Council about the care and attention for the ecclesiastical artistic patrimony, after the 1968 Belice earthquake he started collecting various paintings, sculptures and works of different kind, coming from churches that were unfit for use.[7]

Recognitions and offices

Works

See also

References

  1. Web site: Si è spento mons. Vincenzo Regina . Diocesi di Trapani.
  2. Web site: Alcamo- Un convegno per ricordare monsignor Vincenzo Regina | Alpauno. 9 December 2015.
  3. Lo frutto, i 150 anni del Liceo Classico di Alcamo, a cura di Francesco Melia e Gaetano Stellino p.80; ed.
  4. Web site: Alcamo, inaugurazione della mostra la Figura e l'opera di monsignor Vincenzo Regina. 10 December 2015.
  5. Web site: Il blog di Massimo Provenza: La morte di monsignor Regina, l'arciprete del decalogo contro pizzo e usura. 2009.
  6. Web site: 2015-03-09. Il Museo della Basilica Santa Maria Assunta di Alcamo - il lunedì dell'arte di Kalós - Edizioni Kalos. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160309102145/http://www.edizionikalos.com/museo-basilica-santa-maria-assunta-alcamo-lunedi-dellarte-kalos/. 2016-03-09. 2022-01-17. www.edizionikalos.com.
  7. Web site: Museo d'Arte Sacra Basilica Santa Maria Assunta . 2016-01-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160128010443/http://www.chiesamadrealcamo.it/ . 2016-01-28 . dead .

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