Ugo Giachery

Ugo Giachery ( born May 13, 1896 in Palermo, Italy, † July 5, 1989 in Apia, Samoa ) was an Italian Baha'i and one of the twelve Hands of the Cause of God, who were appointed on 24 December 1951 by Shoghi Effendi.

Life

Giachery came from an aristocratic Sicilian family. He studied chemistry and received his doctorate at the University of Palermo. After the First World War, he went to the United States, where he met the Bahai faith and his future wife from Sweden. He married in 1926 and returned in 1947 returned to Italy.

1948 appointed Shoghi Effendi Giachery to his personal assistant, to acquire the necessary materials for the construction of the Shrine of the Bab in the Baha'i world center in post-war Italy. To this end, he hired people who Chiampo marble and pink Baveno granite according to the plans of the Canadian architect William Sutherland Maxwell cut, carved and polished. He then organized the transport of the finished parts to Haifa in Israel. This activity was not confined to Italy. For the production of the tiles he found a company in the Netherlands. In honor of this Hand of the Cause, Shoghi Effendi described the southwestern door of the mausoleum as Bab -i - Giachery.

1951 Giachery was the matter, and in 1952, appointed by Shoghi Effendi as hand as a member of the International Baha'i Council, forerunner of the Universal House of Justice. In 1953 he was elected chairman of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Italy and Switzerland. Giachery was the special representative of Shoghi Effendi in international conferences in Stockholm in 1953 and 1958 in Chicago and was for several years an observer at the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in Geneva. 1954, work began for the International Archives Building in Bahai World Centre and again appointed Shoghi Effendi Giachery to his personal representative in Italy.

Giachery translated Baha'i literature into Italian and was the author of numerous articles on the Bahai faith. So he described, among others, in the book " Shoghi Effendi Recollections " his personal experience with Shoghi Effendi and the Baha'i World Centre. Giacherys Thoughts on Peace Pacem in Terris of John XXIII. were published in 1974 again. The Universal House of Justice appointed Giachery as its representative for the great centennial celebration in August 1968 in Palermo, in the exile of Baha'u'llah from Gallipoli was thought across the Mediterranean to the prison in Acre. Giachery traveled for the Bahai faith extensively more than a quarter of a century to all continents. So he made 1967 the Head of State of Samoa, Malietoa Tanumafili II, known to the Baha'i faith and gave him a book containing the epistle of Baha'u'llah to the then ruler. Malietoa Tanufali II was Bahai and thus after the Queen of Romania Marie of Edinburgh, the second reigning head of state, which adopted the Bahai faith.

Giachery died in 1989 in Apia and was buried at the House of Worship in Samoa.