Don Ferdinando Maria Casagrande, 29, a priest. Born in Castelfranco Emilia to Augusto and Anna Guermandi.
Resident in Marzabotto. Fifth of seven brothers (Maria, Francesco, Gabriella, Giovanni, Giulia, Lina), son of a railwayman, let us look after as first assistant, member of the Union of Catholic Action of Castelfranco and benefactor of the Conference of St. Vincent de Paul parish, who had always refused the PNF card, following the example of two great priests, Don Giovanni Legnani and can. Oreste Legnani, entered the seminary on 3 November 26. He had the opportunity in the second half of the thirties, through mons Emilio Faggioli, pastoral teacher, to know the new orientations and the main Bolognese exponents of Catholic lay action. In 1937 he attended the Leo XIII club. Having completed his studies in the diocesan and regional seminars of Bologna, he was ordained a priest on July 16, 1938. He was appointed chaplain to S. Martino di Caprara (Marzabotto) on August 5, 1938, in aid of Don Antonio Cobianchi; later, on October 31, 1938, deputy substitute of Don Sebastiano Ansaloni and, after the death of these, on 2 March 1942, spiritual treasurer of Casaglia di Caprara (Marzabotto), «gives life to a tired pastoral care», realized through « itinerant apostolate ", required by the vastness of the parish territories, which also included the subsidiary church of La Quercia. He entered "in deep harmony with those people". "In the winter, every night, he was a school for the youth and youth of St. Martin. There was no lack of the presence of some adult. The classroom was in the rectory. He was a lecturer. He taught to estimate the hay, the beasts, the manure. " "We played bowls in the churchyard and in 'canonical' in the rectory - remembers Armando Monari. He had organized the evening school. With us there was only the third grade at La Quercia. To complete the five classes it was necessary to go either to Vado or to the Sasso. He prepared my brother Bruno for the fifth exam at Vergato. He had an extraordinary disposition to mathematics. He taught as an agricultural expert. " In short, his apostolate had "a basis of friendship and a summit of faith". Especially the subsidiary church of La Quercia "ended up identifying itself with the slim and friendly figure of the chaplain of San Martino". "He built the unity of the hamlet on the left bank of the Sect, which was ecclesiastically divided between the Pieve [di Caprara] and Casaglia".
Since October 1942 the relatives reached him in the rectory of La Quercia. With the ecclesiastical reorganization of the area, for which he provided valuable indications, due to the profound knowledge of the places, he became available after Don Ubaldo Marchioni's renunciation to face the burden of the new parish church in Gardelletta, chosen as the center of the new area , from San Nicolò to La Quercia, that is the valley bottom area of the plebanate of Caprara. He made the solemn entry into the new parish of Gugliara - Gardelletta - La Quercia on 30 April 1944. In the area, a place of confrontation between partisans and fascists, together with don Giovanni Fornasini and don Ubaldo Marchioni, "did not remain at the window. He had his line, consistent with the pastoral mission. He felt the pastor of all and was a man 'hinge' between the parties. He worked and cried for each of his children. But the choice of fund for freedom was clear in him ". In all likelihood, he kept the connections between the parish priests, the families and the partisans of the Red Star Lupo, mostly young people of the area, who were helped and supported "in every way, despite the threats and warnings" received. In August, family members found temporary shelter at the Calvane. The parish priest, however, remained until 22 September 1944 at La Quercia, where the Germans had "set fire to almost all the houses". He managed to reach the Calvans "under the German machine gun that hunted men because a German wounded by partisans". On September 29, 1944, with relatives, he was forced to leave Caivanas precipitously, because "the Germans set fire to all the houses on the slope of the Sect", and take refuge behind the cemetery of S. Martino. During the days of the massacre, until 9 October 1944, together with the survivors, he was the parish priest of a "submerged parish". «Between risks and hardships», «he prayed and collaborated with the women who played the role of fossils». "He waited for the night, when the SS retreated to their beds at the bottom of the valley, strangely decorated like nights to stun the bad conscience in drugs, to leave the cave and make contact with his dispersed community."
On 9 October 1944, with his sister Giulia, he went out to go to the German command "to see that he had a permit to change shelter so as not to starve. They have not returned. " "The two Casagrande brothers, rolled down [in a deep grave] after the massacre, were embraced." When his body was found in May 1945, in the nape [...] one could see the gash caused by a bullet shot at point-blank range and out of the front. " On May 12, 1945 - in his diary, Fr Settimo Marconi, parish priest of Montorio - "I went to San Martino di Caprara to bless the corpse of the parish priest Don Casagrande Ferdinando, the first parish priest of the new Quercia-Murazze-S parish. Nicolò and his sister kindergarten teacher, slaughtered both by the Germans in the first fortnight of October 1944 and thrown into a small ravine a little more than three hundred meters from the church of San Martino, on the road that goes to Steccola ». «Another priestly victim - he noted, in his diary, Don Amedeo Girotti, parson of Montasico, on June 1, 1945 - of the Teutonic bestiality, which culminated in ferocity in that department that deserves to be confined to Siberia, which was called SS ». On 26 May 46 his remains, with those of his family - with his sister Giulia, his mother, his sisters Gabriella, Lina and his brother Giovanni (Nino) who died on 11 October 1944 in S. Martino during a cannonade - they returned to Castelfranco Emilia (MO). The priest, "for all a brother", was declared a partisan from 2 February 1944 to 9 October 1944. On September 13, 76, "the opening of the canonical process for the declaration of the heroic nature of virtues and martyrdom" was asked as a witness of faith. [A] [AP] He is remembered in the Shrine of Piazza Nettuno.
Resident in Marzabotto. Fifth of seven brothers (Maria, Francesco, Gabriella, Giovanni, Giulia, Lina), son of a railwayman, let us look after as first assistant, member of the Union of Catholic Action of Castelfranco and benefactor of the Conference of St. Vincent de Paul parish, who had always refused the PNF card, following the example of two great priests, Don Giovanni Legnani and can. Oreste Legnani, entered the seminary on 3 November 26. He had the opportunity in the second half of the thirties, through mons Emilio Faggioli, pastoral teacher, to know the new orientations and the main Bolognese exponents of Catholic lay action. In 1937 he attended the Leo XIII club. Having completed his studies in the diocesan and regional seminars of Bologna, he was ordained a priest on July 16, 1938. He was appointed chaplain to S. Martino di Caprara (Marzabotto) on August 5, 1938, in aid of Don Antonio Cobianchi; later, on October 31, 1938, deputy substitute of Don Sebastiano Ansaloni and, after the death of these, on 2 March 1942, spiritual treasurer of Casaglia di Caprara (Marzabotto), «gives life to a tired pastoral care», realized through « itinerant apostolate ", required by the vastness of the parish territories, which also included the subsidiary church of La Quercia. He entered "in deep harmony with those people". "In the winter, every night, he was a school for the youth and youth of St. Martin. There was no lack of the presence of some adult. The classroom was in the rectory. He was a lecturer. He taught to estimate the hay, the beasts, the manure. " "We played bowls in the churchyard and in 'canonical' in the rectory - remembers Armando Monari. He had organized the evening school. With us there was only the third grade at La Quercia. To complete the five classes it was necessary to go either to Vado or to the Sasso. He prepared my brother Bruno for the fifth exam at Vergato. He had an extraordinary disposition to mathematics. He taught as an agricultural expert. " In short, his apostolate had "a basis of friendship and a summit of faith". Especially the subsidiary church of La Quercia "ended up identifying itself with the slim and friendly figure of the chaplain of San Martino". "He built the unity of the hamlet on the left bank of the Sect, which was ecclesiastically divided between the Pieve [di Caprara] and Casaglia".
Since October 1942 the relatives reached him in the rectory of La Quercia. With the ecclesiastical reorganization of the area, for which he provided valuable indications, due to the profound knowledge of the places, he became available after Don Ubaldo Marchioni's renunciation to face the burden of the new parish church in Gardelletta, chosen as the center of the new area , from San Nicolò to La Quercia, that is the valley bottom area of the plebanate of Caprara. He made the solemn entry into the new parish of Gugliara - Gardelletta - La Quercia on 30 April 1944. In the area, a place of confrontation between partisans and fascists, together with don Giovanni Fornasini and don Ubaldo Marchioni, "did not remain at the window. He had his line, consistent with the pastoral mission. He felt the pastor of all and was a man 'hinge' between the parties. He worked and cried for each of his children. But the choice of fund for freedom was clear in him ". In all likelihood, he kept the connections between the parish priests, the families and the partisans of the Red Star Lupo, mostly young people of the area, who were helped and supported "in every way, despite the threats and warnings" received. In August, family members found temporary shelter at the Calvane. The parish priest, however, remained until 22 September 1944 at La Quercia, where the Germans had "set fire to almost all the houses". He managed to reach the Calvans "under the German machine gun that hunted men because a German wounded by partisans". On September 29, 1944, with relatives, he was forced to leave Caivanas precipitously, because "the Germans set fire to all the houses on the slope of the Sect", and take refuge behind the cemetery of S. Martino. During the days of the massacre, until 9 October 1944, together with the survivors, he was the parish priest of a "submerged parish". «Between risks and hardships», «he prayed and collaborated with the women who played the role of fossils». "He waited for the night, when the SS retreated to their beds at the bottom of the valley, strangely decorated like nights to stun the bad conscience in drugs, to leave the cave and make contact with his dispersed community."
On 9 October 1944, with his sister Giulia, he went out to go to the German command "to see that he had a permit to change shelter so as not to starve. They have not returned. " "The two Casagrande brothers, rolled down [in a deep grave] after the massacre, were embraced." When his body was found in May 1945, in the nape [...] one could see the gash caused by a bullet shot at point-blank range and out of the front. " On May 12, 1945 - in his diary, Fr Settimo Marconi, parish priest of Montorio - "I went to San Martino di Caprara to bless the corpse of the parish priest Don Casagrande Ferdinando, the first parish priest of the new Quercia-Murazze-S parish. Nicolò and his sister kindergarten teacher, slaughtered both by the Germans in the first fortnight of October 1944 and thrown into a small ravine a little more than three hundred meters from the church of San Martino, on the road that goes to Steccola ». «Another priestly victim - he noted, in his diary, Don Amedeo Girotti, parson of Montasico, on June 1, 1945 - of the Teutonic bestiality, which culminated in ferocity in that department that deserves to be confined to Siberia, which was called SS ». On 26 May 46 his remains, with those of his family - with his sister Giulia, his mother, his sisters Gabriella, Lina and his brother Giovanni (Nino) who died on 11 October 1944 in S. Martino during a cannonade - they returned to Castelfranco Emilia (MO). The priest, "for all a brother", was declared a partisan from 2 February 1944 to 9 October 1944. On September 13, 76, "the opening of the canonical process for the declaration of the heroic nature of virtues and martyrdom" was asked as a witness of faith. [A] [AP] He is remembered in the Shrine of Piazza Nettuno.
Don Ferdinando Maria Casagrande, 29, a priest. Born in Castelfranco Emilia to Augusto and Anna Guermandi.
Resident in Marzabotto. Fifth of seven brothers (Maria, Francesco, Gabriella, Giovanni, Giulia, Lina), son of a railwayman, let us look after as first assistant, member of the Union of Catholic Action of Castelfranco and benefactor of the Conference of St. Vincent de Paul parish, who had always refused the PNF card, following the example of two great priests, Don Giovanni Legnani and can. Oreste Legnani, entered the seminary on 3 November 26. He had the opportunity in the second half of the thirties, through mons Emilio Faggioli, pastoral teacher, to know the new orientations and the main Bolognese exponents of Catholic lay action. In 1937 he attended the Leo XIII club. Having completed his studies in the diocesan and regional seminars of Bologna, he was ordained a priest on July 16, 1938. He was appointed chaplain to S. Martino di Caprara (Marzabotto) on August 5, 1938, in aid of Don Antonio Cobianchi; later, on October 31, 1938, deputy substitute of Don Sebastiano Ansaloni and, after the death of these, on 2 March 1942, spiritual treasurer of Casaglia di Caprara (Marzabotto), «gives life to a tired pastoral care», realized through « itinerant apostolate ", required by the vastness of the parish territories, which also included the subsidiary church of La Quercia. He entered "in deep harmony with those people". "In the winter, every night, he was a school for the youth and youth of St. Martin. There was no lack of the presence of some adult. The classroom was in the rectory. He was a lecturer. He taught to estimate the hay, the beasts, the manure. " "We played bowls in the churchyard and in 'canonical' in the rectory - remembers Armando Monari. He had organized the evening school. With us there was only the third grade at La Quercia. To complete the five classes it was necessary to go either to Vado or to the Sasso. He prepared my brother Bruno for the fifth exam at Vergato. He had an extraordinary disposition to mathematics. He taught as an agricultural expert. " In short, his apostolate had "a basis of friendship and a summit of faith". Especially the subsidiary church of La Quercia "ended up identifying itself with the slim and friendly figure of the chaplain of San Martino". "He built the unity of the hamlet on the left bank of the Sect, which was ecclesiastically divided between the Pieve [di Caprara] and Casaglia".
Since October 1942 the relatives reached him in the rectory of La Quercia. With the ecclesiastical reorganization of the area, for which he provided valuable indications, due to the profound knowledge of the places, he became available after Don Ubaldo Marchioni's renunciation to face the burden of the new parish church in Gardelletta, chosen as the center of the new area , from San Nicolò to La Quercia, that is the valley bottom area of the plebanate of Caprara. He made the solemn entry into the new parish of Gugliara - Gardelletta - La Quercia on 30 April 1944. In the area, a place of confrontation between partisans and fascists, together with don Giovanni Fornasini and don Ubaldo Marchioni, "did not remain at the window. He had his line, consistent with the pastoral mission. He felt the pastor of all and was a man 'hinge' between the parties. He worked and cried for each of his children. But the choice of fund for freedom was clear in him ". In all likelihood, he kept the connections between the parish priests, the families and the partisans of the Red Star Lupo, mostly young people of the area, who were helped and supported "in every way, despite the threats and warnings" received. In August, family members found temporary shelter at the Calvane. The parish priest, however, remained until 22 September 1944 at La Quercia, where the Germans had "set fire to almost all the houses". He managed to reach the Calvans "under the German machine gun that hunted men because a German wounded by partisans". On September 29, 1944, with relatives, he was forced to leave Caivanas precipitously, because "the Germans set fire to all the houses on the slope of the Sect", and take refuge behind the cemetery of S. Martino. During the days of the massacre, until 9 October 1944, together with the survivors, he was the parish priest of a "submerged parish". «Between risks and hardships», «he prayed and collaborated with the women who played the role of fossils». "He waited for the night, when the SS retreated to their beds at the bottom of the valley, strangely decorated like nights to stun the bad conscience in drugs, to leave the cave and make contact with his dispersed community."
On 9 October 1944, with his sister Giulia, he went out to go to the German command "to see that he had a permit to change shelter so as not to starve. They have not returned. " "The two Casagrande brothers, rolled down [in a deep grave] after the massacre, were embraced." When his body was found in May 1945, in the nape [...] one could see the gash caused by a bullet shot at point-blank range and out of the front. " On May 12, 1945 - in his diary, Fr Settimo Marconi, parish priest of Montorio - "I went to San Martino di Caprara to bless the corpse of the parish priest Don Casagrande Ferdinando, the first parish priest of the new Quercia-Murazze-S parish. Nicolò and his sister kindergarten teacher, slaughtered both by the Germans in the first fortnight of October 1944 and thrown into a small ravine a little more than three hundred meters from the church of San Martino, on the road that goes to Steccola ». «Another priestly victim - he noted, in his diary, Don Amedeo Girotti, parson of Montasico, on June 1, 1945 - of the Teutonic bestiality, which culminated in ferocity in that department that deserves to be confined to Siberia, which was called SS ». On 26 May 46 his remains, with those of his family - with his sister Giulia, his mother, his sisters Gabriella, Lina and his brother Giovanni (Nino) who died on 11 October 1944 in S. Martino during a cannonade - they returned to Castelfranco Emilia (MO). The priest, "for all a brother", was declared a partisan from 2 February 1944 to 9 October 1944. On September 13, 76, "the opening of the canonical process for the declaration of the heroic nature of virtues and martyrdom" was asked as a witness of faith. [A] [AP] He is remembered in the Shrine of Piazza Nettuno.
Resident in Marzabotto. Fifth of seven brothers (Maria, Francesco, Gabriella, Giovanni, Giulia, Lina), son of a railwayman, let us look after as first assistant, member of the Union of Catholic Action of Castelfranco and benefactor of the Conference of St. Vincent de Paul parish, who had always refused the PNF card, following the example of two great priests, Don Giovanni Legnani and can. Oreste Legnani, entered the seminary on 3 November 26. He had the opportunity in the second half of the thirties, through mons Emilio Faggioli, pastoral teacher, to know the new orientations and the main Bolognese exponents of Catholic lay action. In 1937 he attended the Leo XIII club. Having completed his studies in the diocesan and regional seminars of Bologna, he was ordained a priest on July 16, 1938. He was appointed chaplain to S. Martino di Caprara (Marzabotto) on August 5, 1938, in aid of Don Antonio Cobianchi; later, on October 31, 1938, deputy substitute of Don Sebastiano Ansaloni and, after the death of these, on 2 March 1942, spiritual treasurer of Casaglia di Caprara (Marzabotto), «gives life to a tired pastoral care», realized through « itinerant apostolate ", required by the vastness of the parish territories, which also included the subsidiary church of La Quercia. He entered "in deep harmony with those people". "In the winter, every night, he was a school for the youth and youth of St. Martin. There was no lack of the presence of some adult. The classroom was in the rectory. He was a lecturer. He taught to estimate the hay, the beasts, the manure. " "We played bowls in the churchyard and in 'canonical' in the rectory - remembers Armando Monari. He had organized the evening school. With us there was only the third grade at La Quercia. To complete the five classes it was necessary to go either to Vado or to the Sasso. He prepared my brother Bruno for the fifth exam at Vergato. He had an extraordinary disposition to mathematics. He taught as an agricultural expert. " In short, his apostolate had "a basis of friendship and a summit of faith". Especially the subsidiary church of La Quercia "ended up identifying itself with the slim and friendly figure of the chaplain of San Martino". "He built the unity of the hamlet on the left bank of the Sect, which was ecclesiastically divided between the Pieve [di Caprara] and Casaglia".
Since October 1942 the relatives reached him in the rectory of La Quercia. With the ecclesiastical reorganization of the area, for which he provided valuable indications, due to the profound knowledge of the places, he became available after Don Ubaldo Marchioni's renunciation to face the burden of the new parish church in Gardelletta, chosen as the center of the new area , from San Nicolò to La Quercia, that is the valley bottom area of the plebanate of Caprara. He made the solemn entry into the new parish of Gugliara - Gardelletta - La Quercia on 30 April 1944. In the area, a place of confrontation between partisans and fascists, together with don Giovanni Fornasini and don Ubaldo Marchioni, "did not remain at the window. He had his line, consistent with the pastoral mission. He felt the pastor of all and was a man 'hinge' between the parties. He worked and cried for each of his children. But the choice of fund for freedom was clear in him ". In all likelihood, he kept the connections between the parish priests, the families and the partisans of the Red Star Lupo, mostly young people of the area, who were helped and supported "in every way, despite the threats and warnings" received. In August, family members found temporary shelter at the Calvane. The parish priest, however, remained until 22 September 1944 at La Quercia, where the Germans had "set fire to almost all the houses". He managed to reach the Calvans "under the German machine gun that hunted men because a German wounded by partisans". On September 29, 1944, with relatives, he was forced to leave Caivanas precipitously, because "the Germans set fire to all the houses on the slope of the Sect", and take refuge behind the cemetery of S. Martino. During the days of the massacre, until 9 October 1944, together with the survivors, he was the parish priest of a "submerged parish". «Between risks and hardships», «he prayed and collaborated with the women who played the role of fossils». "He waited for the night, when the SS retreated to their beds at the bottom of the valley, strangely decorated like nights to stun the bad conscience in drugs, to leave the cave and make contact with his dispersed community."
On 9 October 1944, with his sister Giulia, he went out to go to the German command "to see that he had a permit to change shelter so as not to starve. They have not returned. " "The two Casagrande brothers, rolled down [in a deep grave] after the massacre, were embraced." When his body was found in May 1945, in the nape [...] one could see the gash caused by a bullet shot at point-blank range and out of the front. " On May 12, 1945 - in his diary, Fr Settimo Marconi, parish priest of Montorio - "I went to San Martino di Caprara to bless the corpse of the parish priest Don Casagrande Ferdinando, the first parish priest of the new Quercia-Murazze-S parish. Nicolò and his sister kindergarten teacher, slaughtered both by the Germans in the first fortnight of October 1944 and thrown into a small ravine a little more than three hundred meters from the church of San Martino, on the road that goes to Steccola ». «Another priestly victim - he noted, in his diary, Don Amedeo Girotti, parson of Montasico, on June 1, 1945 - of the Teutonic bestiality, which culminated in ferocity in that department that deserves to be confined to Siberia, which was called SS ». On 26 May 46 his remains, with those of his family - with his sister Giulia, his mother, his sisters Gabriella, Lina and his brother Giovanni (Nino) who died on 11 October 1944 in S. Martino during a cannonade - they returned to Castelfranco Emilia (MO). The priest, "for all a brother", was declared a partisan from 2 February 1944 to 9 October 1944. On September 13, 76, "the opening of the canonical process for the declaration of the heroic nature of virtues and martyrdom" was asked as a witness of faith. [A] [AP] He is remembered in the Shrine of Piazza Nettuno.
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