Subiaco Cassinese Congregation

The Congregation of Subiaco or Sublazenser Congregation is a Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation. She went in 1872 from the Congregation Cassinensischen forth.

History

Prehistory

The foundation of the Congregation of Subiaco goes back to Casaretto Pietro ( 1810-1878 ). Casaretto had already occurred at a young age in the Abbey of Santa Maria del Monte at Cesena, which belonged to Cassinensischen Congregation. 1842 Casaretto got the order to maintain the ownership of the Order to a formerly managed by cassinensischen Benedictine parish in Pegli near Genoa by his presence. Casaretto agreed, but asked for permission to set up with other monks there a Benedictine community. On 6 November the Bishops 'Conference agreed to the suggestion and appointed Casaretto ' steward of the prior of the priory of Pegli " and approved by letter dated 12 December, the establishment of a separate novitiate. The great line that hovered Casaretto for its small priory was already noted in this official document: " The perfect communion, the strict adherence to the observance of the Benedictine Institute Cassinensischen " and in this form, the plan was also approved by the Cassinese Congregation.

During his time in Pegli Casaretto already working on a plan to train monks to missionaries. In 1846 he received permission from the Holy See to establish a mission school for monks in San Giuliano. The school was later moved to Subiaco.

The Subiaco Province

1850 appointed him to the Pope as abbot to the monastery of Santa Scholastica in Subiaco. From Genoa he brought not only a multinational group of 15 novices, but also the idea of a "new Observance" with that precluded including the personal possession of money and the monk allowed only an absolute minimum of personal possessions and - even before the Annunciation called for a special devotion to the Immaculate Conception - a dogma in 1854. Every year on December 8, have had to commit anew to the perfect communion of life ( vita perfetta comune ) to consecrate the monks of his monastery.

Casarettos dream to form a separate province within the Cassinensischen Congregation, 1851 came true when the Holy See on May 28, the formation of the " Province of Subiaco " announced.

The new congregation

On May 8, 1852 General Chapter of the Congregation Cassinensischen elected him to their Church President, a post which he held until 1858. From 1858 he devoted himself again reinforced his province Subiaco. During this time matured his decision to found a new congregation. After meeting with the abbots of the monasteries in Subiaco province he asked the Holy See in Rome officially to the approval of the new congregation and its statutes. The request was granted on 5 August 1867, initially for a trial period of ten years, with the title " Congregationis Casinensis a primaeva observantia " ( Cassinenser Congregation of the original observance ). Casaretto became the first Abbot General.

Only with the recognition as a separate congregation on March 9, 1872, sparked the new movement of the Cassinensischen Congregation. The administrative division into provinces was based on the countries where the monasteries were located.

Second Vatican Ecumenical Council

As a direct result of the Second Vatican Council, two principles are included in the statutes of the Congregation - the pluralism of observance at the level of the monasteries and provinces and the principle of subsidiarity at the executive level. Thus, especially the international orientation of the Congregation was taken into account.

The Congregation Today

According to the company currently has 64 monasteries in all five continents, along with 45 female monasteries of the Congregation. Office of the General Curia of the Congregation is Sant'Ambrogio della Massima in Rome.

In September 2004, Dom Bruno Marin OSB was elected Abbot President. Dom Marin put his profession in 1957 and was abbot of the abbey Praglia in Teolo at Padua.

On 4 October 2010 joined Dom Giordano Rota, the Abbot President of the Congregation Cassinensischen, formally with the request to the Congregation of Subiaco approach to bring about a union of the two congregations. Consultations will be held with the Holy See on the practical implementation.

Provinces

The Order is divided into 7 provinces and one per province divided ( March 2012):

Italian Province,
English Province,
Flemish - Dutch province,
French Province,
Spanish province,
Province of Africa & Madagascar,
Vietnamese province and the
Philippine per province.

Moreover, even include some extraprovinzielle monasteries and convents associated to the Congregation.

Generaläbte the Congregation

After

Pietro Casaretto, 1867-1876
Raffaele Testa, 1876-1880
Nicola Canevello, 1880-1888
Jordan Ballsieper, 1888-1890
Roma Rico Flugi d' Aspermont, 1890-1896
Domenico Serafini, 1896-1900
Mauro Serafini, 1900-1920
Benoît Gariador, 1920-1928
Maur Etcheverry, 1928-1937
Emanuele Caronti, 1937-1959
Pietro Celestino Gusi, 1959-1966
Gabriel Braso, 1966-1978
Mauro Elizondo, (Pro - Presidente ) 1978-1980
Denis Huerre, 1980-1988
Gilbert Jones, 1988-1996
Thierry Portevin, 1996-2004
Bruno Marin, since 2004

Procurators General of the Congregation

After

Colombano Canevello 1867-1880
Roma Rico Flugi d' Aspermont 1880-1890
Léandre Lemoine 1890
Domenico Serafini 1892-1896
Roma Rico Flugi d' Aspermont 1896-1904
Benedetto Lopez ( Pro-proc. 1904-1912 ) 1904-1920
Emanuele Caronti 1920
Gerardo Fornaroli 1920-1923
Romualdo Simó 1923-1927
Atanasio Bagnara 1927-1928
Paolo Ferreti 1928-1938
Arsenio De Nicola 1938-1946
Pietro Celestino Gusi 1946-1947
Louis Arnal 1947-1953
Cyprien coPENs 1953-1956
Louis Arnal 1956-1968
Giovanni Lunardi 1968-1974
Giuseppe Tamburrino 1974-1982
Giovanni Lunardi 1982-1983
Anselmo Bussoni 1983-1986
Fabian Binyon 1986-1988
Ireneo Sisti 1988-1989
Mayeul De Dreuille 1989-1999
Mark Hargreaves 2000-2001
Paolo Fassera 2001-2004
Christophe Vuillaume 2005-2007
Ghislain Lafont 2007-2009
Ambrose Flavell 2009-2011
Mark Hargreaves since 2011

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