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The martyrdom of Don Bonifacio remembered in Capodistria
Mario Ravalico's book, "Francesco Bonifacio. Life and Martyrdom of a Man of God," was presented at Palazzo Gravisi. In it, the author continues his search for the truth about the Istrian priest, killed in 1946 and beatified in 2008. Released on the 80th anniversary of the Piran native's assassination, Mario Ravalico's book is published by Ares in collaboration with the IRCI of Trieste and with the support of the Italian Community of Krasica. The author spoke with Kristjan Knez in a conference broadcast by Radio Capodistria: ...
Francis Boniface: Life and Martyrdom of a Man of God
In anticipation of the 80th anniversary of the martyrdom of Father Francesco Bonifacio (killed by Yugoslavian communist partisans in hatred of the faith in September 1946), a new biographical publication tells the story of the Istrian priest. Mario Ravalico, a longtime scholar of this event, has published Francesco Bonifacio. Life and Martyrdom of a Man of God, with an introduction by Roberto Spazzali and a preface by the Bishop of Trieste, published by Ares. The volume was produced in collaboration with the IRCI (Regional Institute for Istrian, Rijeka-Dalmatian Culture) and with the support of the Italian Community of Krasica, supported by the Italian Union of Rijeka and the University of Trieste.
The truths about the Blessed Don Bonifacio martyr
At the Sanctuary of Strugnano, Mario Ravalico's book “May God forgive us all” was presented, in which the biographer of Blessed Boniface reconstructs the life and death of the one the author defines as “a man of dialogue and forgiveness". “May God forgive us all”, these were the last words of Don Francesco Bonifcacio before being murdered “in odium fidei” by four “popular guards” and it is with this phrase that Mario Ravalico, biographer of the prelate from Piran, decided to title the book dedicated to him. After being presented in Trieste and Krasica, the work that reconstructs the life of Boniface has landed at the Sanctuary of Strugnano, a place...
Blessed Don Bonifacio beyond borders
The Slovenian translation of “Meditando con il Vangelo”, edited by Mario Ravalico, was presented at the “Georgios” Pastoral Cultural Center in Piran. It contains the reflections of the blessed Don Francesco Bonifacio written down in the last months of his life. The presentation of the Slovenian volume edited by Janko Pirc, of the text included in the “Quaderni” series promoted by the Group Friends of Don Francesco and published by the Družina publishing house in 2021, was finally held with the introduction of the Pastoral Choir “Georgios” who sang Tartini’s Crocefisso Mio Signor. It was already scheduled last year, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the death of the martyr Don Francesco...
How many priests and nuns ended up in the foibe?
Father Antonio Curcio, parish priest of Bencovazzo (Dalmatia), Father Angelo Tarticchio, parish priest of Villa di Rovigno, Father Giovanni Manzoni, parish priest of Rava (Sebenico), Father Ladislao Piscani, vicar of Circona (Go), Father Miroslavo Bullesich, parish priest of Mompaderno and vice director of the Seminary of Pisino, six nuns disappeared from a convent in Fiume and 76 religious of whom nothing more has been heard, Father Francesco Bonifacio and Father Miro Bulesic, both killed in “odium fidei” are some of the numerous priests and nuns who, from 1943 to 1948, lost their lives thrown into the foibe together with an unspecified number of people, guilty of being Italian. There are those who say that the foibes were...
Honor to the "enemies of the people" martyrs of communism
After July 13: Slovenia & Italy towards a common memory by Paolo Sardos Albertini - 04/09/2020 - Source: Lega Nazionale The act performed by the Slovenian and Italian Heads of State on July 13 at the Basovizza Shrine had a very specific meaning: to pay, together, honor to the victims of Tito's terror, a common homage to Italians and Slovenians who had been massacred as "enemies of the people" and who are now remembered as innocent victims. That was an important moment for the creation of a "common memory" that finally makes explicit the truth of what happened: a huge tragedy that involved an incredible number of victims and that has...
Don Francesco Bonifacio, the Martyr of the Foibe
10/02/2018 - On September 11, 1946, he was murdered by the Communists, who could not stand his commitment to young people. In 2008, Benedict XVI promulgated the decree of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, declaring him murdered in odium fidei. What Don Francesco Giovanni Bonifacio thought of his priestly task in the difficult months immediately after the war, he had expressed in his diary: "We are in heroic times. We are heroic to be saints to the point, if necessary, of martyrdom." And in 2008, the Church declared him blessed as the "martyr of the foibe." He was only 34 years old when he was killed. He was born on September 7, 1912 in Pirano d'Istria, then in the diocese of Trieste,...
