Biography
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BIBLIOGRAPHY (In order of publication)
Mazzucchi L., The life and spirit of don Luigi Guanella founder of the Servants of Charity and of the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence, v. 1, Milan, S. Gaetano Institute, 1918.
Mazzucchi L., The life, the Spirit and the Works of Don Luigi Guanella: Founder of the Servants of Charity and of the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence, Como, Casa Divina Provvidenza, 1920.
Bologna G., Don Luigi Guanella (1842-1915). Biographical pages, Rome, Francesco Ferrari, 1923.
Disler W., Don Guanella. An apostle of charity for our time, Konstanz, Kanisiuswerk, 1926.
Alfieri Tognini P., Don Luigi Guanella. Biographical notes, Rome, Pia Unione del Transito di S. Giuseppe, 1927.
Don Luigi Guanella. Founder of the Servants of Charity and of the Daughters of Our Lady of Providence, (Fiori di Cielo; 39), Turin, R. Berruti & C., 1930.
Alfieri Tognini P., Don Luigi Guanella. Biographical notes, 2nd ed., Lecco, Premiata Printing School of the Don Luigi Guanella Opera Orphanage, 1935.
Disler W., Don Guanella. An apostle of charity for our time (Kleine Lebensbilder; 109), Konstanz, Kanisiuswerk, 1937.
Don Luigi Guanella father of the poor, edited by the Pia Unione del Transito di S. Giuseppe, Rome, 1940.
Mazzucchi L., Don Luigi Guanella in his life and works, Rome, Pia Unione del Transito di S. Giuseppe, 1940.
Mazzucchi L., Don Luigi Guanella, Rome, Pontifical Gregorian University, 1941.
Bedont P., Brief notes on the life and works of Don Luigi Guanella, Milan, Istituto S. Gaetano, 1942.
Briefs rasgos del la vida del siervo de Díos don Luís Guanella: fundador de los Siervos de la Caridad y de las Hijas de S. Maria de la Providencia, en el centenario de su nascimiento, Buenos Aires, 1942.
Luigi da Gatteo, The Servant of Charity. Don Luigi Guanella, Florence, Franciscan Union, 1943.
Tamborini A., Don Luigi Guanella, Como, Casa Divina Provvidenza, 1943.
Lombardini I., Servant of Charity: Biographical features of the servant of God Don Luis Guanella, Buenos Aires, Pia Unión del Tránsito de San José, 1949.
The pilgrim of Love. A short popular sketch of the life of the servant of God father Aloysius Guanella founder of Servants of Charity and of the Daughters of Saint Mary of Divine Providence, Chicago, 1952.
Tamborini A., Don Luigi Guanella, 2nd ed., Bari, Edizioni Paoline, 1958.
Tamborini A., Don Luigi Guanella (1842-1915), Bari, Edizioni Paoline, 1961.
Buehrle M., His brother's keeper. Blessed Aloysius Guanella Servant of Charity, Chicago, 1964.
Tamborini A., Heroe de Caridad. El Blessed Don Luis Guanella, Florida, Ediciones Paulinas, 1964.
Tamborini A., The Servant of Charity Blessed Luigi Guanella. Founder of the Servants of Charity and of the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence, Rome, General Postulation of the Servants of Charity, 1964.
Tamborini A., Preatoni G., The Servant of Charity Blessed Luigi Guanella. (Witnesses), Milan, Ancora, 1964.
Tamborini A., The servant of charity the Blessed Luigi Guanella. Fonder of the Servants of Charity of the Daughters of S. Mary of Providence, Rome, General Postulation of the Servants of Charity, 1964.
Tamborini A., Testemunha da Caridade. O bem-aventurado Luís Guanella, (Coleção testimunhas), Edicoes Paulinas, S. Paulo 1965.
Alfieri Tognini P., Don Luigi Guanella. Biographical notes, Chiavenna, Theological Seminary, 1971.
Tamborini A., Preatoni G., El siervo de la Caridad. Blessed Luis Guanella, Caracas, Escuela Técnica Popular Don Bosco, 1972.
Feldkircher S., Der diener der naechstenliebe, Porto Alegre, Educandário São Luiz Escola Grafica, 1975.
Tamborini A., Preatoni G., El siervo de la Caridad. Blessed Luis Guanella, Caracas, Ediciones Paulinas, 1975.
Alfieri Tognini P., Blessed Luís Guanella, Santa Maria – BR, 1977.
Mazzucchi L., In the spirit of the Father, (Documents; 1), Centro Studi Guanelliani, Rome, Città Nuova, 1977.
Carini Alimandi L., Luigi Guanella on the streets of the fourth world, New City, Rome 1978.
Gridelli T., Saginario G, Fsmp, Saginario D., Don Guanella Good Samaritan, Rome, Centro Studi Guanelliani, 1978.
Betancor A., Padre de los pobres. Apostolic life and compromise of charity of Blessed Luis Guanella for youth, Asunción, Ediciones Loyola, 1979.
Credaro T., Fr. Luis Guanella the paths of Providence, (Coleção Pão E Paraiso; 1), Porto Alegre, Educandário São Luiz, 1979.
Gridelli T., Saginario G, Fsmp, Saginario D., Father Guanella. The good samaritan, Rome, Centro Studi Guanelliani, 1979.
Gridelli T., Saginario G, FSMP, Saginario D., Don Guanella buen samaritano, Centro Studi Guanelliani, 1979.
Gridelli T., Saginario G, Fsmp, Saginario D., Dom Guanella bom samaritano, Centro Studi Guanelliani, 1979.
Mazzucchi L., No espirito do Pai, (Coleção Pão e Paraiso; 2), Porto Alegre, Centro de Estudos Guanellianos, 1979. (published in one volume with Páginas espirituais e orações do B. Luís Guanella, edited by Attilio Beria) .
Beria A., El beato Luis Guanella: Sintesis viviente - Espiritu y charisma, Buenos Aires, Provincia Argentina Congregación Siervos de la Caridad, 1980.
Tamborini A., El siervo de la Caridad. Blessed Luis Guanella, 2nd ed., Madrid, 1980.
Beria A., Espírito e charisma do bem-aventurado Luís Guanella, (Coleção Pão e Paraiso; 3), Porto Alegre, Centro de Estudos Guanellianos, 1981.
Bochud G., The Adventurer of the Good Lord. Don Luigi Guanella, Como, Casa Divina Provvidenza, 1981.
Credaro T., Give bread and the Lord. The life and the works of father Aloysius Guanella, (Research and Words of Wisdom; 2), Rome, Center of Guanellian Studies, 1981.
De Ambroggi C., Don Luigi Guanella, (Pionieri; 15), Leumann (TO), Elle Di Ci, 1981.
Gonzalez Andrada A., Don Guanella hero of charity, (Coleccion Fundadores), Buenos Aires, Editorial Esquiu, 1981.
Alfieri Tognini P., Blessed Luís Guanella, 2nd ed., Santa Maria – BR, 1982.
Carrozzino M., Don Guanella educator, (Essays and research), Rome, New Frontiers, 1982.
Volpi D., History of a courage. Don Luigi Guanella, Rome, Pauline Editions, 1982.
Credaro T., Los caminos de la Providencia. Blessed Luis Guanella, Buenos Aires, Congregación Siervos de la Caridad Provincia Argentina, 1983.
Credaro T., A poor mountain man. Don Luigi Guanella (Research and essays; 3), Rome, New Frontiers, 1983.
Hardon J., Don Guanella modern apostle of Charity: Founder of Daughters of St. Mary of Providence and the Servants of Charity, 1983.
Volpi D., Historia de un hombre valeroso. Blessed Luis Guanella, Bogotá, Ediciones Paulinas, 1983.
De Ambroggi C., Bl. Luigi Guanella: w 20-ta rocznice beatyfikacji, na jezyk polski przelozyl Witold Malej'imk, Rome, 1984.
Volpi D., A courage of an ideal, (Coleção diamond), Sao Paulo, Edizioni Paulinas, 1984.
Mazzucchi L., The life, the Spirit and the Works of Father Louis Guanella, 2nd ed., Broomall, Havertown Printing & Co., 1985.
Guanella L., The ways of Providence, Bristol-RI, 1986 (published in one volume with Outlines for a history of the House of Divine Providence).
Lapucci C., Luigi Guanella. Parables of a Samaritan, Florence, Libreria Editrice Fiorentina, 1986.
Tarani M., Fr. Luiz Guanella: from the cross to the light, (Coleção Pão e Paraiso, 5), Porto Alegre, 1986.
Massara A., For a critical reading of the biographies of don Luigi Guanella (1842 - 1915), Rome University of Rome "La Sapienza", Faculty of Education, academic year 1986-87.
Los caminos de la Providencia: Luis Guanella autobiographical memories, Rome, New Frontiers, 1988.
Guanella L., The ways of Providence. Autobiographical Memoirs (Documents; 3), new ed., Rome, Nuove Frontiere, 1988.
Cugnasca M., Don Guanella "an extraordinary man in works and virtues". Deposition to the apostolic process of beatification, (Documents, 4), Rome, Nuove Frontiere, 1989.
The Times and Life of Don Guanella: Biographical Research. Proceedings of the 1st Course of the Guanellian School Rome 27 September - 4 October 1989, (Saggi storico, 2), Rome, Nuove Frontiere, 1990.
Lucarelli V., A fascinating "contemporary": Don Guanella, Cinisello Balsamo (MI), Edizioni Paoline, 1991.
Lucarelli V., Um "contemporary" attractive. Father Guanella, Porto Alegre, Graphic Editora Pallotti, 1991.
Braido P., Characters of the "preventive system" of Blessed Luigi Guanella. Hypothesis of reconstruction and interpretation, (Historical Essays, 4), Rome, New Frontiers, 1992.
Carrera M., Don Luigi Guanella. A story called hope. One hundred and fifty years at the service of the least, Rome, Opera Don Guanella, 1992.
Carrera M., Don Luis Guanella. A history called hope. Cento cinquenta años al servicio de los últimos, Rome, Obra Don Guanella, 1992.
Carrera M., Don Luigi Guanella. His story about him is called hope. One hundred and fifty years in the service of the least, Rome, Opera Don Guanella, 1992.
Carrera M., Father Luis Guanella. Uma história called esperança. One hundred and five years a serviço dos últimos, Rome, Opera Don Guanella, 1992.
The charitable apostolate of Don Guanella in his thought and in his achievements, edited by Alejandro Dieguez, (Saggi storico, 6), Rome, Nuove Frontiere, 1993.
Pellegrini P., Don Guanella unpublished in the writings of Piero Pellegrini, Rome, New Frontiers, 1993.
Aguado J., Luigi Guanella Samaritan priest, (Don Guanella paperbacks; 1), Rome, New Frontiers, 1994.
Buehrle M., His brother's keeper. Blessed Aloysius Guanella Servant of Charity, 2nd ed., Broomall, Havertown Printing & Co, 1994.
Lucarelli V., Blanchoud C., A fascinating "contemporary". Don Guanella, Florida - AR, Sociedad de San Pablo, 1994.
Carrera M., Don Guanella servant for love and juggler of Providence, Rome, New Frontiers, 1995.
Lapucci C., The figure, the thought and the action of Don Luigi Guanella in his writings, (Saggi storico, 10), Rome, Nuove Frontiere, 1995.
Pellegrini P., Luigi Guanella: The years of formation 1842-1866, (Saggi historical, 13), Rome, New Frontiers, 1996.
Mazzucchi L., In the spirit of the Father, East Providence, 1996.
Mazzucchi L., I passi di Lui, excerpt from «Charitas» n. 122, 1959, (Formation Papers; 10), Rome, Congregation of the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence, 1997.
Tarani M., Spirituality of Blessed Luis Guanella. Consecrated life in Don Guanella and his foundations (Cadernos guanellianos; 3), Porto Alegre, Centro Brasileiro de Estudios Guanellianos, 1997.
Lombardini I., El Siervo de la Caridad. Rasgos biográficos of Blessed Luis Guanella, new ed., Buenos Aires, Provincia Cruz del Sur, 1999.
Mazzucchi L., The life, the Spirit and the Works of Don Luigi Guanella: Founder of the Servants of Charity and of the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence, rest. anast. Como 1920, Rome, New Frontiers, 1999.
Pellegrini P., Don Luigi Guanella: who is he? (Formation Papers; 18), Rome, Congregation of the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence, 1999.
Credaro T., São José and Don Guanella. A devoção a São José na life e nas obras do bem aventurado Luís Guanella, Porto Alegre, Province of Santa Cruz Obra Don Guanella, 2000.
Guanella L., The ways of Providence. Autobiographical Memoirs (Documents, 3), 2nd ed., Rome, New Frontiers, 2003.
Carrera M., Don Guanella prophet of charity, 2nd ed., Rome, Città Nuova, 2004.
De Ambroggi C., Le curé des pauvres. L'abbé Guanella, Rome, New Frontiers, 2004 (reprint).
Gambi O., Father Luìs Guanella, o servos dos pobres, Aparecida-SP, Editora Santuarìo, 2004.
Historical biographical profile of the Servant of Charity Sac. Luigi Guanella Good Samaritan, edited by the Congregation of the Servants of Charity, Como, Province of the Sacred Heart, 2004.
Teixeira F., Walking with Guanella, Brasilia, Brisa Editora, 2004.
Lapucci C., The figure, the thought and the action of Fr. Luis Guanella in his writings, Grass Lake, Pious Union of St. Joseph, 2005.
Aguado JB, Ksiadz Alojzy Guanella dobry samarytanin, Wydawnictwo, 2008.
Britto JP, Don Luigi Guanella servant of Charity. Biography, Chennai, Divine Providence, 2008.
Lapucci C., Luigi Guanella. Parables of a Samaritan, Rome, New Frontiers, 2008.
Sgarbossa M., Don Guanella: desire for good, Milan, Edizioni Paoline, 2008.
Carrozzino M., Luigi Guanella. He spent doing good, Gorle (BG), Velar, 2009.
Carrozzino M., Aloisius Guanella. He Went About Doing Good, Gorle (BG), Velar,
Credaro T., Don Guanella "Good Shepherd", Como, Province of the Sacred Heart SDC, 2009.
Carrozzino M., Siccardi C., Accordò the earth with the sky. Luigi Guanella saint, Cinisello Balsamo (MI), Edizioni San Paolo, 2011.
Don Luigi Guanella. The mountain priest father of the poor, edited by F. Vendramin and P. Venerito, Rome, New Frontiers, 2011.
Guanella L., The ways of Providence. Autobiography of a saint, Cinisello Balsamo (MI), Edizioni San Paolo, 2011.
Aguado J., Luis Guanella: Corazon de padre (With El: Folletos mensuales sobre los consejos evangélicos; 94), Madrid, Confer, [sd].
Carini Alimandi L., Luís Guanella on the roads of the fourth world, Porto Alegre, Grafíca Editora Pallotti, [sd].
Carrozzino M., Don Guanella educator, [undated]
Mazzucchi L., En el espíritu del Padre, trans. José Morelli, Rome, Centro Estudios Guanelianos, [sd]
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Author: Titus Credaro
Publisher: Monti Publisher
Pages: 301
Price: €15,00
ISBN: 978-88-8477-258-9
Place: Saronno (VA)
Year: 2013
Review
This book is not like one that arose from the popular imagination and was told in times gone by. Nor is it part of the many stories, the result of the creativity of some writer who knows how to masterfully interpret the fantasies and aspirations of the people. This is a true story, it is the documented, real, historical account of the life of Don Luigi Guanella. The personal reflections of the author that are found in the speech have the purpose of updating the words, the facts, the examples of don Guanella.
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Author: Louis Guanella
Publisher: Multimedia Editions San Paolo
Price: €22,00
ISBN: 801314747136
Place: Milan
Year: 2012
Review
"Pane e paradiso" contains some of Luigi Guanella's most beautiful writings and anecdotes.
Born in his beloved mountains of Valle Spluga, in the province of Sondrio, he soon felt the vocation to the priesthood.
An existence lived in full and total trust in Love and Providence which he poured out with full hands towards people with all kinds of disabilities who were kindly defined by him as "the good children".
Even today, the religious congregations he founded operate in twenty countries on four continents.
On October 23, 2011, Benedict XVI proclaimed him a saint.
"Bread and paradise" created by Caritas Italiana and the European Human Resources Center of Florence, in collaboration with the Migrantes Foundation and the Guanellian Study Center, is part of the Cultural and Educational Project dedicated to some personalities of the XNUMXth century.
preface: Renato Balduzzi, Davide Rondoni
readings: Paolo Bonacelli, Anita Kravos, Fabrizio Bucci, Barbara Lo Gaglio, Damiano Tommasi
music: Mite Balduzzi
production: European Human Resources Multimedia Center San Paolo In collaboration with Caritas Italiana, Fondazione Migrantes and Centro studi Guanelliani
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Author: Jimmy Rizzi
Publisher: I'm sorry
Pages: 23
Price: non-commercial edition
ISBN: 9788801049114
Place: Saronno (VA)
Year: 2012
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Author: Cristina Siccardi, Michela Carrozzino
Publisher: St. Paul Editions
Pages: 214
Price: €12,00
ISBN: 978-88-215-7155-8
Place: Cinisello Balsamo (MI)
Year: 2011
Footnotes: series "The Protagonists" Vol. 120
Review
The life of don Luigi Guanella, to get to know his extraordinary figure a few months after the beatification which will take place on 23 October 2011.
Friend of saints, bishops, cardinals and popes; writer, founder of kindergartens, homes for the elderly and disabled, parish works, religious congregations - the Daughters of Saint Mary of Providence and the Servants of Charity - as well as church builder, beatified by Paul VI, Don Guanella will be proclaimed a saint by Benedict XVI on 23 October 2011.
No one, at the beginning of his apostolate, believed him. Everyone thought he was a "hot-headed" priest who had to be used with tongs. A little too intransigent, very controversial, little tolerant, irrepressible.
He chose to raise the condition of the people by going to the urban suburbs, to villages lost in the mountains, to the suburbs of large cities such as Rome, Milan and even Chicago. The ultimate goal of his mission was to elevate each person "to celestial greatness".
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Author: Elena Fattarelli
Pages: 83
Year: 2011
Review
The occasion of the canonization of Don Luigi Guanella puts us in a position to dig into the roots of our diocesan history and to rediscover glimpses of life that are still capable of founding our present.
Elena, diligent and industrious collaborator of our parishes, with her mission as a catechist has managed to give vigor to these glimpses, presenting them to the boys entrusted to her.
Some paintings, simple and essential, re-propose the life and works of San Luigi Guanella in their beauty and allowed the boys to be able to savor his work and to touch the effectiveness of a holy life.
It is an invitation, for each of us, to stop for a moment. Looking at the time in which we are living, as Don Guanella did, and launching ourselves into his same bet: how much is it possible to make the Gospel, the Lord Jesus, alive here and today?
Elena grants us this job to leave us with the hope that it is possible at any time, because it is based on having people who love and cultivate big dreams.
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Author: Pino Venerito, Franca Vendramin
Publisher: New Frontier Publisher
Pages: 126
Price: €5,00
ISBN: 9788875010874
Place: Roma
Year: 2011
Review
Among the various initiatives undertaken during the journey in preparation for the canonization of Don Luigi Guanella, the publication of this Portrait of a Saint also stands out.
The text, edited by the heads of the Spirituality Area, in collaboration with other friends who have given useful advice and suggestions, is meant to be - as the postulator Don Mario Carrera underlines in the presentation - "an attempt to read the passages that the Founder has on the paths of evangelical holiness and a proposal for ways of reflection to stimulate our modern sensibility to cultivate seeds of eternity for our time".
In a study and planning meeting (Rome, 6 September 2010) which was also attended by the Bishop of Como, mgr. Diego Coletti, the Committee had identified, among the many that embellish the multifaceted figure of our Founder, those aspects that make his charisma and his spirituality shine with topicality and prophecy in the contemporary world.
In the elaboration of this text reference was therefore made to these aspects to present the testimony and message of Don Guanella: Man of God - Father of the poor - Citizen of the world - Passionate educator.
With brief hints and significant episodes we have tried to describe the coordinates of his holiness, with the conviction that he cannot be betrayed by relegating his charism and mission to a library shelf, but that they must be incarnated in our time, may they become an extension of him in us: we too are saints like him!
It is always Don Carrera who claims: "Don Luigi Guanella is certainly not a niche saint, but a street priest who challenges us and challenges us to be attentive also to the fragments of goodness present in each of those we meet, because those fragments , enabled by divine grace and cared for with patient and loving solicitude, can prove useful in transforming people into a cathedral of God".
Mons. Diego Coletti, who edited the preface entitled "Don Guanella, son of the Como Church", stimulates and helps the reader to immediately place himself before the figure of the Founder, offering a punctual and rich synthesis of the most expressive traits of his humanity and holiness.
"Don Guanella had a sensitivity that led him to develop acute and brilliant responses to situations of difficulty and discomfort ... he was a man of extremely fine intelligence and multiple interests, with the ability to inflame hundreds of collaborators and cooperators with his enthusiasm ... a man humble, who knew how to listen to those at his side (think of Blessed Chiara Bosatta and Sister Marcellina) ... a very modern man who does not know the ends of the world: it is significant that the miracle that led to his canonization took place in the United States" .
Then the bishop exhorts: “Let us look to him: to his example, to his capacity for prayer, listening, contemplation; to him to entrust oneself completely to God in the centrality of the Eucharist, to his Marian devotion ”.
The authors wanted to coin, in the title of the text, a characteristic expression with which don Guanella was often called and as he himself also liked to define himself - the mountain priest - with another expression that reveals the original seal of his holiness - father of poor-.
It is believed that a few lines are sufficient for the reader to grasp the essentiality of the Portrait and the attractive force of the living testimony of the Saint which does not end with death, on the contrary it becomes even more luminous because it possesses the inextinguishable color of love.
"We remember the humble priest, the mountain priest, as someone still likes to call him, one would not know if more to characterize his evangelical simplicity or rather his adamantine temper [...] he looked at Heaven and smiled at the earth, a singular type of 'ascetic and apostle ...
The poor mountain priest, as he liked to call himself, bitterly opposed when he was young, full of ardor for the dreamed apostolate of winning many souls to God, relieving their temporal miseries, as soon as his work began to bear fruit , was loved, well-liked by the Superiors, Parish Priests, Bishops, and even by the Supreme Pontiffs.”
(cf. in the biography of d. Mazzucchi, p.55; La Divina Provvidenza, 1915)
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Author: Michelle Carrozzino
Publisher: I'm sorry
Pages: 48
Price: €3,50
ISBN: 978-88-01-04238-2
Place: Cascine Vica (TO)
Year: 2009
Review
Don Luigi Guanella (1842-1915), blessed and founder of two religious congregations (the Daughters of Santa Maria della Provvidenza and the Servants of Charity, and alongside them the Guanellian lay cooperators) belongs to that group of Italian priests who between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century began charitable works aimed at tackling the problems of new poverty, in the era that preceded and accompanied the country's industrial development. The name of Luigi Guanella is synonymous with love for people who are marked by suffering in any way or live in situations of marginalization. His testimony of the living Gospel is also a beautiful page of theology since his choices and the good he has done reveal the heart of the Christian faith and affirm the truth about man, giving comfort and hope to all men, believers and non-believers.