The first meeting of the Basilicata delegation following the entry of new Dames and Knights was held in Picerno on June 15. The convivial meeting was also very useful to take a review of the Order’s activities in Lucania and to set up new initiatives, always in the Constantinian spirit.
Matera, Sunday March 24th – In observance of the mission of the Order, which is collaborating with “Centro Jula” in Scansano Jonico (Matera), more than 100 Easter packages containing basic foodstuffs have been donated to several parishes of the province of Matera with the blessing of Saint George, Patron of the Constantinian Knights of Basilicata.
Basilicata – The Delegate of Basilicata, Noble Doctor Massimo Calenda, has the pleasure to inform you that on the next April 13th at 11am the first investiture ceremony of the Delegation will be held at the Pontifical Royal Basilica of Saint Francis of Paola in Naples, in the presence of the Highest authorities of the Order.
On the initiative of Knight Grand Officer Alcibiade Jula and Dame Maristella D’Alessandro, Radiology center Jula in Scanzano Jonico (Matera, Basilicata) organized a supply of 150 long-life food packages for parish churches to be distributed to needy families. The churches of Pisticci, Marconia, Tinchi, Bernalda, Scanzano, Policoro, Salandra, Montalbano and the kindergarten of Bianca Fiora di Pisticci supervised by the order of nuns Suore Adoratrici della Santa Croce based in the Generalate House of Casoria (Naples).
The event was sponsored by the Lucanian Delegation of the Order.
The Delegation of Basilicata, led by the Regional Delegate Knight Dr. Massimo Calenda, continues its action of closeness and assistance to the poor and needy present in the territory of Basilicata. In fact, thanks to the generosity and collaboration of the managers of the Pisticci site of the French chemical company Gnosis by Lesaffre, it was possible to receive as a gift 150 liters of detergent with sanitizing action, produced according to the indications of the World Health Organization, which have been widely distributed among various bodies that deal at the forefront of personal assistance. At the time of the donation, Thursday July 29, at the pisticcese plant, Rocco Sileo, Manager of Gnosis by Lesaffre, who offered the material to the Knight Giovanni Quaranta and to Constantinian meritorious Michele Di Maro, intervened on behalf of the Constantinian Regional Delegate of Basilicata. Subsequently, thanks to the logistical support of the company La Carpia Domenico srl, which has offered to take care of transport and delivery, the jerrycans of the sanitizer have reached the identified recipients, including the headquarters of Caritas of the Archdiocese of Matera – Irsina, the Parish of San Rocco in Matera and the Reception Houses “Don Tonino Bello” and “Maria Santissima della Bruna”, with its canteen for the poor renamed “Restaurant San Rocco”, that distributes hundreds of meals daily to those who are forced to live in absolute poverty, the parish of Saint Vincenzo de’Paoli in borgo la Martella, the Parish Beata Vergine del Carmine in Cancellara (PZ) and other consignees at the respective locations of Val d’Agri and Vulture – Melfese. At the end of September a further donation of detergent that will be made available again by the plant Gnosis by Lesaffre is scheduled, continuing and strengthening what has already been done.
