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Diocese's History (San Benedetto Del Tronto, Ripatransone, Montalto Marche)

 




The main actors for the creation 0f the Diocese were Pope Pius V, Ascanio Condivi, Annibal Caro, St Filippo Neri, Michelangelo Buonarroti.

With the bull “Illius fulciti presidio” of July 30, Pius V elevated it to the rank of city and episcopal seat with jurisdiction over: Quinzano, Monteprandone, Force, Montalto, Montedinove, Rotella, Porchia, Cossignano (localities separated from the Farfense Presidato); Acquaviva, San Benedetto, Gissi, Grottammare, Marano, Sant’Andrea (localities separated from the diocese of Fermo); Colonnella and Patrignone (localities separated from the diocese of Ascoli).

With Ripatransone, a buffer diocese was established between Ascoli and Fermo (secular rivals), intended to fill a pastoral void; furthermore, the centuries-old and anachronistic Farfense jurisdiction was broken, and under the pressure of the new renewal ferments arising from the Council of Trent, an authentic pastoral revolution took place in the area.


The first Bishop, Msgr. Lucio Sassi di Nola (1521-Rome, 1604), made his solemn entry into Ripatransone on Sunday, March 23, 1572.

A few years later, in 1586, Pope Sixtus V reduced its territory to create the diocese of Montalto, his homeland, and made Ripatransone a suffragan of the metropolitan city of Fermo. In 1597, the Ripani people having decided to build a new cathedral in the center of the city, Bishop Pompeo De Nobili solemnly laid the first stone.

In the Octave of Easter of 1622, the Ripani people triumphantly welcomed the simulacrum of the Madonna of San Giovanni (coming from Loreto), who was proclaimed patron saint of the city and the diocese, and solemnly crowned on May 10, 1682 by the Vatican Chapter (the first in the Papal State). The “Cavallo di fuoco” (Fire Horse), a traditional folkloristic-pyrotechnic event on the Sunday after Easter, unique in its kind in Italy, probably dates back to one of these two dates.

In 1623, Bishop Lorenzo Azzolini founded the Seminary, which was placed in the rooms of the San Pastore hospital (later the Dominican Monastery and today the Institute of S. Teresa). In the same year, the new Cathedral of San Gregorio began to be officiated, with the transfer of the bishop's chair and the Chapter from San Benigno. The new Cathedral was immediately enriched with three wooden works by Desiderio Bonfini of Patrignone.

During the years of the French Revolution, some priests from beyond the Alps took refuge in Ripatransone (the refractory French priests arrived in 1793).

In the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century (until the union with Montalto), the Pastors left a good memory of themselves: Monsignor Filippo Monacelli (reorganization of the curia archive); Msgr. Giovanni Carlo Gentili (foundation of the Accademia Cuprense for young lovers of literature and historical erudition); Msgr. Fedele Buffarini (care given to the population devastated by cholera, especially in San Benedetto del Tronto); Msgr. Raniero Sarnari (Diocesan Eucharistic Congress); Msgr. Luigi Boschi (exemplary charity).

In the same period, important events were: transfer (1820) of the seminary to the large Monastery of S. Chiara; transfer (1875) of the bishop's residence and the curia to the Convent of S. Caterina degli Agostiniani; solemn celebrations (1882) of the second centenary of the coronation of the Madonna di S. Giovanni.

In the second half of the nineteenth century the Episcopal Seminary became one of the most famous in the region thanks to dynamic rectors, such as Don Giambernardino Mascaretti of Grottammare, and highly skilled teachers, such as the Latinist and Dante scholar Don Carmine Galanti (1821-1890) of Cossignano, Don Luigi Antonio Paielli (d. 1878) and Don Augusto Stazzuglia (1846-1903) of San Benedetto del Tronto, Don Adolfo Cellini (1857-1920) of Ripatransone, a man of letters, theologian and exegete.


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