forgotten in dark alleys and streets once the heart of the city and places that drops steeply towards the Mar Piccolo are interwoven stories, tales, myths and legends. These roads are now silent witnesses to the everyday life of our fathers. There are places that speak of God and Holiness. And I want to talk about the holiness that comes in the Heart of the meek, I speak of the places where the young Francesco Domenico Antonio Pasquale Pontillo better known as Mary of St. Joseph Sant'Egidio lived, worked and brought the light of God in the hearts of those who knew him and attended.
We are in 1729 already in November brings the first cold in our humble city and low slope of La Riccia how many there are in the island mother sees the light of a new life in the case of Antonio Francesco Pontillo. I lived in this low Pontillo Cataldo where Dad was also carrying the craft and where ropemaker Mama Grace would raise his children. Today entering this site you can still feel the humble warmth and intimacy Pontillo of the domestic hearth as if nothing had changed in almost 200 years, is to reflect that in this humble place to the young Francesco Antonio have had a close personal relationship with God and it is not surprising to think that the great humility and humanity that would have marked in his religious life in Naples to having learned from his family and hard work are daily ropemaker. This pious place after years of neglect was donated by the city of Taranto to the Friars Minor of San Pasquale October 10, 1959 that a year later in 1960 it turned into a place of prayer is still a place of pilgrimage for many of Taranto, where a group commendably of devotees gather to pray together Holy Rosary every Thursday. But we continue our journey in Taranto "Sant'Egidio" in our ancient and venerable cathedral of San Cataldo. The Cathedral rivers of ink have been written, however, besides the great historical and artistic value is ignored, often strong spiritual charge of the place where the remains of our holy Bishop Cataldo patron saint and symbol of the teaching of 'Archbishop of Taranto.
Here in artistic font, built by Bishop Caracciolo in the same place where he found the body of San Cataldo, Francesco Antonio Pontillo was regenerated by baptism to faith in Christ and the names were to be imposed a bit 'description of the lives of these children:
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as the Seraphic Father Francis
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Antonio as the glorious Saint of Miracles
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Domenico in honor of the holy founder of the Dominican
- Pasquale as the venerated Santo Antonio Francesco English Alcantarini where he always found guidance and inspiration.
But the saint was born also in deep prayer and devotion that Francesco Antonio exercised in a place that is a bit 'in the heart of many Taranto or the church of San Pietro Imperial us today known as San Domenico Maggiore. Tarantino who has never seen the exit of the procession of moving from San Domenico? A cathartic moment of the religious life of our city and yet the Church of San Domenico Maggiore is something more. In fact, this church has always been the guardian of popular religion as Tarantino was and still is home to three ancient brotherhoods; the Confraternity of Mary. Sorrows and St. Dominic (1676), the SS. Name of God (1580) and finally the Royal Confraternity of Mary. Del Rosario (1571), the latter our brother Santo was in the middle of 700.
The Confraternity is established in the first chapel to the left entering the church of San Domenico, a chapel decorated with polychrome marble altar of the artistic dall'Arciconfraternita renovated in 1754 surmounted by a heavenly picture of the Virgin of the Rosary surrounded by panels depicting the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, the subject of unceasing prayer to Our Lady of Francesco Antonio del Rosario which always had a filial devotion. Francesco Antonio exemplary brother was very accurate in following states (so strict) and obedient and respectful of other comrades and superiors of the congregation. confraternal The Institution was very important in the life of Saint Egidio, because it was a family of compensation after the premature loss of his father who was also brother. This shows that the fraternities can be schools of holiness beyond the ceremonious and the desire to be seen and to excel in this and our brothers of today should learn from Sant'Egidio.
Journey in Taranto Egidiana "ends in the church of San Michele of the Franciscan vocation of Francis Anthony Pontillo In fact, this little church was the first convent of the Friars Minor Alcantarini arrived in Taranto in 1748 where Sant'Egidio chose to devote his life to God after a vision in a dream after a novena to the Immaculate Virgin in which he was invited to join the order from St. Paschal Baylon and St. Peter of Alcantara. He succesivamnete in this church and in the San Pasquale Baylon said the postulant before leaving for the convent of Salento, where he made his profession a few years later. But at the end of Sant'Egidio and as if he had never left the streets and alleys of our Taranto. So today the city should re-discover the old town, only to discover the traditions and customs or to "sell" the territory have tourists but also to rediscover the values \u200b\u200band lessons that our Sant'Egidio to give us because certainly if we listen to our city would be better. So we entrust our city Sant'Egidio called the "Comforter of Naples" but I also say "Comforter Taranto" in need of his great intercession with Jesus
I leave you with words that among Egidio spoke through the lanes of Naples:
"It's up to God, God will take care of, Madonna ... and recommend ourselves to God because you love this life will end and life in heaven never ends"
Peace and Good to all
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