Born in Naples on April 22, 1841.
Died in Rome on February 18, 1918.
He entered the Neapolitan Province of the Society of Jesus on 7 September 1856, made his religious profession on 2 February 1876. He was a lecturer in Laval, on the island of Jersey and in Louvain, then moved to Rome, he taught moral theology at the Gregorian University for 33 years . He was a valuable collaborator of the Roman curia as theologian of the Apostolic Dataria, consultant of the Consistorial congregations, of Bishops and Regulars (since 1908 of Religious) and of the Discipline of the Sacraments as well as a member of the Commission for the codification of canon law. For the congregation of Bishops and Regulars he compiled the Normae in 1901 which for many years guided the procedures for the approval of new institutes.
As consultor of the Congregation for Religious, Father Bucceroni participated in 1915 in the meetings of the Commission for the examination of new Institutes which examined the reports of the apostolic visitor of the Servants of Charity, Msgr. *Francesco Balconi. Charged, two years later, with examining the documentation presented by Don *Aurelio Bacciarini on 17 October 1916 for the approval of the Servants of Charity, Bucceroni presented his vote on 7 December 1917. In it he highlighted the maturity of the institute, founded by a distinguished man, highly esteemed by Pius X. Even if he lacked a perfect religious organization, according to the consultor, "the spirit of obedience and prayer reigned among the members, and the spirit of sacrifice is heroic in them". He also noted the perfect economic and disciplinary separation achieved between the two Guanellian institutes. He ended his vote broadly in favor of the institute's approval, with only one remark relating to the lack of a "religious mechanism" still to be acquired, which could however be provided for with the simultaneous approval ad tempus et ad experimentum of the Constitutions, from himself reviewed with don Guanella himself and corrected, so as to give "certain approval". The response of the Congress was instead harshly negative, so much so that Father Bucceroni was on the point of making a remonstrance to Benedict XV.
Sources:
MARIO ZANFREDINI, ad vocem, in Diccionario histórico de la Compañía de Jesús, vol. I, Madrid, Institutum Historicum SI - Universidad Pontificia Comillas, 2001, pp. 564-565.
BARTOLOMEO GENERO, ad vocem, in Biographical Dictionary of Italians, vol. 14, Rome, Institute of the Treccani Encyclopaedia, 1972, p. 756.
Roman Archives of the Society of Jesus, Roman Province, 1703 (Summary of life), Death and eulogy of P. Jannuarii Bucceroni.
Guanellian sources:
Epistolario «Guanelliano» by Aurelio Bacciarini, edited by Alejandro M. Dieguez, vol. I (1906-1917), Rome, New Frontiers, 1999, pp. 193, 202, 216.
CONGREGATIO DE CAUSIS SANCTORUM, Luganen. Beatifica¬tionis et canonizationis servi Dei Aurelii Bacciarini [...] Positio super virtutibus, Summarium, Rome, Tipografia Guerra, 1996, p. 418 (witness Don Leonardo Mazzucchi).
SACRA RITUUM CONGREGATIONE, Comen. seu Mediolanen. Beatificationis et canonizationis servi Dei Aloysii Guanella [...] Positio super virtutibus, Summarium, Romae, Typis Guerra et Belli, 1950, p. 386 (witness Don Silvio Vannoni).
Necrology, in "The Divine Providence", 1918, pp. 27-28.
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