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The documentary "Antonio Santin – Defensor Civitatis" on Prime
The documentary film "Antonio Santin, Defensor Civitatis," directed by Valeria Baldan and Giovanni Ziberna, recounts the merciful figure of Bishop Antonio Santin (Rovigno 1895-Trieste 1981), bishop of Trieste and Koper from 1938 to 1975. For Istrians in particular, Bishop Santin—an exile among exiles—was a fundamental point of reference, a guarantee of understanding their problems and difficulties, a constant presence in support of the most vulnerable. With the same passion, he also defended the Jewish people after the promulgation of the Fascist racial laws, openly opposing Mussolini himself. He rose to the rank of defensor...
Documentary on Mons. Santin presented in Bergamo Brescia Capital of Culture
The screening in Brescia of the documentary on the story of Monsignor Santin becomes an opportunity to bring to light the scars of Italian history, the Julian-Dalmatian exodus and the tragedy of the foibe. The film «Antonio Santin - Defensor Civitatis» is screened in the auditorium of the oratory of the parish of Sant'Afra, a film to which the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian Culture contributed, in the presence of the leaders of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia and Monsignor Ettore Malnati (former personal secretary of Santin). «Monsignor Santin saved the city of Trieste and its port from...
The documentary on Bishop Santin will be screened in Brescia and Bergamo, Capital of Culture
The end of the Second World War in Trieste is characterized by the Forty days of Yugoslavian communist occupation during which the second wave of massacres in the foibe will be unleashed. On April 30, 1945, the insurrection of the National Liberation Committee took place, which had substantially defeated the last troops of the German garrison. The next day the "Titoites" would arrive in the city, who ousted the Italian partisans: the figure of the Bishop of the Diocese of Trieste and Capodistria, Monsignor Antonio Santin, emerged as a bulwark of the city, who had already faced the Germans by making them desist from their plans to destroy the...
Antonio Santin, Defensor Civitatis
May 1945, 1895 marks the beginning of the Yugoslav occupation of Trieste and the beginning of forty days of massacres, deportations, summary trials and disappearances by the Ozna, Tito's secret police that carried out a political purge preparatory to the annexation of Venezia Giulia and Fiume to the nascent communist Yugoslavia. In these moments of terror and violence, the figure of the Bishop of Trieste and Capodistria Antonio Santin, born in Rovigno d'Istria in 30, stands out. Already on the day of the insurrection of April 1945, XNUMX, he had acted as a mediator between the forces of the National Liberation Committee that had taken control of the Julian capital and the remaining troops...
Santin defensor civitatis of Trieste
The Piccolo was founded in Trieste to keep alive the feelings of Italian culture in the context of the Austro-Hungarian Empire with a liberal orientation. At the time, the government of the diocese of Trieste was governed by ecclesiastics proposed to the Pope by the Emperor, such as Bishops Monsignor Legat, Glavina, Nagl and Karlin. When the Empire fell in 1918 and Italy arrived, Karlin asked to be transferred from Italian territory and was then appointed Bishop of Maribor. The first Bishop of Trieste and Capodistria under the Italian Government was the Piedmontese Angelo Bartolomasi, already a military Bishop, who opted for the diocese of Pinerolo and left the Chair to Monsignor Luigi Fogar, secretary...
Don Ettore, a priest close to the Exodus community
The arrival of thousands of Istrian refugees after the Second World War and the charisma of the Bishop of Rovinj Antonio Santin, a true defensor civitatis in the final phase of the conflict, contributed to transforming the secular Trieste into a city more sensitive to the Church. In the diplomatic uncertainties that characterized the Cold War in Venezia Giulia, starting from the never-established Free Territory of Trieste to the Treaty of Osimo, passing through the bloody days of November 1953, the Diocese represented one of the few stable, lasting and sensitive points of reference for the citizens. In this climate...
Santin and human rights
Ettore Malnati, Bishop Antonio Santin and the protection of human rights in Venezia Giulia, July, Trieste 2020. The brand new work by Can. Mons. Prof. Ettore Malnati is being published: it is the precious essay "Bishop Antonio Santin and the protection of human rights in Venezia Giulia", a book edited by the Regional Institute for Istrian-Fiuman-Dalmatian Culture of Trieste, fresh off the press for Luglio Editore of Trieste and accompanied by several period photos. The essay will soon be available in the best bookstores at a price of 13 euros; if you prefer to get it through IRCI, the price will be 10 euros. If you want or need to order it from us...
