Rome-10th January 2015. The vicarious Delegation in Rome of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George on the occasion of the New Year planned a Holy Mass attended by Knights and Dames from Rome.
The Holy Mass was conducted by the Very Reverend Monsignor Karel Kasteel, Ecclesiastic Grand Cross, together with the Reverend Military Chaplain Don Rosario Scibilia in the Memorial Chapel at the Center “Alti Studi della Difesa”-Salviati Palace, Vice Admiral Rinaldo Veri attending , he is the chairman of CASD and generously hosted the vicarious Delegation of Rome on the occasion of the important liturgical event.
The vicarious Delegate of Rome Marquis Giorgio Mirti della Valle welcomed the Members of the Constantinian Order with the usual wishes for the New Year; he was surrounded by part of the Delegates’ council: the noblemen Fabrizio Ratto-Vaquer, Maurizio Bettoja and Vincenzo Giusti, Earl Vito Garzilli, Lieutenant Colonel Giuseppe De Lorenzo and Commander Arturo Cannavacciuolo.
After the Mass on the same premises a feast was held at Foresteria della Lugara where Knights and Dames from Rome drank a toast to the New Year although everybody was sorry about the hitch that prevented S.A.S. prince Manfred Windisch-Graetz, new Delegate for Rome and Lazio of SMOCGS, from joining them in the beginning of the constantinian activities.
Among the members, the attendance ought to be reported of Admiral Mario Tarabbo, Earl and Countess Bontemps de Montreuil, Avv. Figus-Diaz with his wife Donna Paola Naselli dei Duchi di Gela, Don Francesco Marigliano di Caracciolo, Barone Fabrizio di Giura and Baronessa Maria Francesca di Giura Grimani, noblewoman from Veneto, volunteers and friends of the Order.
The vicarious Delegate of Rome, Marquis Mirti della Valle, reminded all the participants of the strong work of the Delegates in 2014 and informed that more and more charity activities would be planned in 2015. In addition, he asked all the volunteers, though they were not members of the Order yet or they were absent, to be available to support people in need in the Urbe with the several charity and aid activities of Rome vicarious Delegation.
The Glorification of the Holy Cross that is the aim of the Constantinian Order of St.George is achieved nowadays over all through the Christian help to people morally and financially in need as the very Reverends reminded during the Holy Mass.