From The Journal of April 30, 2009 Umbria
Città della Pieve
After 60 years rises to the Venerable Brotherhood of Mercy of Jesus and St. John the Beheaded in Città della Pieve, the oldest in Umbria, between the first in Italy. The ribbon-cutting ceremony, the ritual of dressing, took place last Sunday in the presence of local authorities, the national president of Mercy and the regional coordinator Massinello, and Archbishop Chiaretti. Until the postwar period the dressing was celebrated every year since 1321, when the statute is drafted constitution - still preserved, which followed that of 1492, the 1858 and then 2008. It turns out that it was the Blessed James Villa to bring the Mercy Parish: '600 you came together during the many brotherhoods to collect "energy" necessary in the management of the hospital, administered until 1912. And it is in the last century began a slow decline since the war so that tasks are limited to funeral and little else. That was until January 2009 when they leave the service once a regional commercial registration, and renewal of the Board. In three months some 110 services were performed for 5 thousand km. With 200 members, 15 volunteers in operation and 40 enrolled in first aid. "In the office there is no heating - Fabio tells governaotore Sberna - but we all preferred to invest in the quality of health and social services, which are to offer. " Were purchased with own funds and an ambulance Doblò disabled. From here starts with determination the oldest institution in memory of his seven hundred years of history.
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