Delegation of Lazio

Rome-8th January 2015. New Year’s celebrations were really intense at the Vice Delegation for Lazio. In respect of H.R.H. Prince and Grand Master Carlo di Borbone delle Due Sicilie’s orientation, “the hunger of our neighbour”, several charity events were held and a lot of activities were carried out abroad as well, in warring territories where a lot of our brothers are serving in temporary missions.

In South Lazio where there is a high number of exiled families or in need, over eighty quintal food supplies were collected and handed out to about three hundred families. These activities have had a strong media impact with the public Authority’s acclaim and complacency.

We have contributed to the starting up of soup kitchens together with Caritas Diocesana, who we always cooperate with all year long, remembering that poor people, as anyone else does, “need to feed every day”. Important aids have been sent also to warring territories. Some of our brothers in the army who were in peace mission in Afghanistan, have carried on their voluntary service, which they usually do in the Delegation, with these people tormented by a long and cruel war. The humanitarian operation took place in the village of Jibrhil coordinated by our applicant who is finalizing his training to receive the constantinian Grand Cross, Cap. Cosimo Epifani, member of the Italian contingent in Herat.

The end of the year’s activities included also the attendance to the liturgical ceremonies and the organization of performances. In St.Pietro cathedral in Minturno these events were held: the concert of the Little Wind Band composed of several from 5 to 16 year old children who performed a rich international repertoire of Christmas carols, an opera concert based on musical Christmas topics, a festival of Choirs from the district of Aurunco. In the organization of these events our Delegation was supported by the National Association of the Italian constantinian Knights, at whose head is the lawyer Marquis Giuliano Buccini Grimaldi who has also given his high patronage.

Moreover, the Epiphany event in Formia was highly attended and broadcast on Lazio channels including a show of comedians, magicians and singers followed by the distribution of presents to the children.

Aid activities to poor people and activities supporting religious bodies have been carried out by Puglie Delegate, nobleman Prof. Ugo Patroni Griffi together with the Abruzzi Delegate, Marquis Dr. Baldassarre Castiglione who we thank for his fondness and friendship.

A lot of other activities less noticeable but definitely successful, have been carried out by our brothers in the city where they live also in cooperation with Caritas and with the other local religious communities who don’t receive humanitarian aids by the central organisations and must provide to the needs with unsolicited raisings and personal donations.

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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.

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Rome – Friday, November 21 at  the Link Campus University in Rome in the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the death of HRH Prince Alfonso of Bourbon, the Delegation of Lazio of the Sacred Military Constantinian  Order of St. George, the Link Campus University and the d’Amico Editore with the patronage of the National Association of Italian Constantinian Knights (chaired by Marquis Don Giuliano Buccino Grimaldi) and the support of the National Association of former students of Nunziatella, organized the presentation of the book  entitled “The King. Alfonso of Bourbon, Count of Caserta” by Marquis Gaetano de Felice.

The book is dedicated to the figure of the Prince progenitor of the current members of the Royal House of the Two Sicilies and edited by Giuseppe Catenacci, passionate bibliophile and Honorary President of the National Association of former students of Nunziatella, and Francesco Maurizio Di Giovine, historian.

The presentation, moderated by dr. Roberto della Rocca, concludes a series of events dedicated to the successors of King Francis II and had as speakers the two authors of the book; Mr. Sevi Scafetta  and Mr. Giovanni Grimaldi.

They were present: H.S.H.Prince Manfredi Windisch-Graetz, Delegate for Rome and   Lazio of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George,  Marquis  Giorgio Mirti della Valle, Vice Delegate for the city of Rome, the lawyer  prof. Franco Ciufo, Vice Delegate for Lazio, ANCCI’s Councillor  and Professor of Law of European Union at the Link Campus University.

Numerous speakers, including the current President of the National Association of former students of Nunziatella Alessandro Ortis,  the Prince Don  Pierluigi Brancia di Apicena and the Vice President of Link Campus University who brought greetings of the Honourable President  Vincenzo Scotti.

The Vice  Delegation  of Rome was also represented by the  Chancellor Fabrizio Ratto-Vaquer and  the Treasurer Antonio Badolati.

Prince Alfonso Maria Giuseppe Alberto of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Count of Caserta (Caserta March 28, 1841- May 26, 1934) was the third son of King Ferdinand II and his second wife Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria.

During the invasion of Garibaldi  he was fighting on the front line alongside  his brothers Francesco and Luigi in the battle which took place between Capua and Gaeta to repel the invading army.

At 7 am on February 14, 1861  the Prince had, along with the last sovereigns of the Two Sicilies, to leave Gaeta and go into exile.

On the death of King Francis in 1894 he became Head of the Royal House of Bourbon Two Sicilies taking one the peerage  attributable to the Sovereign, “Duke of Castro”. The title is still used by the current Head of the Royal House and Grand Master of the Dynastic Orders, H.R.H. Prince Charles of Bourbon Two Sicilies.

Rome – Monday 8th December 2014. The Delegation of Rome of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George, on the occasion of the solemn day of the Immaculate Conception, will organize a special day for  citizens in need.

In this occasion, the delegation, will offer a lunch to 500 city inhabitants in need  at the Oblate Sisters of the Sacra Famiglia in Via Carrara 1\3.

 H.S.H. Prince Manfred Windisch-Graetz, who has recently assumed the position of Delegate for Roma and Lazio, will attend the charity lunch to “stay close” to the needy of the City. He will be welcomed by the  Delegate of Rome, Marquis Giorgio Mirti della Valle and by other Councillors of the Delegation.

This initiative is only  a  part of the overall humanitarian project that the Order wants to pursue coordinating all its strength through the action of all delegations, in Italy and all over the world, and directing them towards the realization of this project, entitled “the hunger of our neighbor”.

Our “neighbor” is to be intended in the evangelical sense of the term: a person in need living near us and, very often,  no one notices him.

To the Constantinian Knights is required indeed to contribute to the primary needs of these persons, accordint to the Christian spirit which every Knight must be inspired by.