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erattivo N eractive º 1 eractivo – eractif 2 eraktiv 0 1 2 Ordine di Sant’Agostino Order of Saint Augustine Orden de San Agustín O u A r d M C u l t a o s r A d n n o i s n a l In this issue front page: 3. Editorial 3. His Eminence Prospero Cardinal Grech 5. Augustinian Cardinals: 19th - 20th Centuries OSA INTeractive 7. Other Cardinals of the Augustinian Order 1-2012 augustinian family : Editorial board: Michael Di Gregorio, OSA 8. Provincial Chapter: Province of Quito, Ecuador Robert Guessetto, OSA Melchor Mirador, OSA 9. FANA: Federation of Augustinians of North America Collaborators: 10. Second Meeting of Young Augustinians of Europe Leonardo Andrés Andrade, OSA Manuel Calderon, OSA 12. Episcopal Ordination of His Eminence Prospero Card. Grech Giuseppe Caruso, OSA Osman Choque, OSA 13. Creation as Cardinal of His Eminence Prospero Card. Grech Gennaro Comentale, OSA José Gallardo, OSA 14. Contemplative Nuns Prepare for Assembly Jean Gray Prospero Grech, OSA Claudia Kock 15. Asia-Pacific Renewal Program Gathers Friars in Japan Paulo Lopez, OSA Robert Marsh, OSA 16. St. Augustine’s College in Abuja, Nigeria Miguel Angel Martín Juarez, OSA Edelmiro Mateos, OSA 17. Rapid Growth at Augustinian School in India Françoise Pernot José Fernando Rubio 18. Peru: The Indigenous Kukama of Nauta Mauricio Saavedra, OSA Rafael Santana 19. Workshop for Vocation Promotors José Souto, OSA Veronica Vandoni 19. Itineraries for Augustinian Contemplation Graphic, layout and printing: 20. Lay Augustinian Congress Tipolitografia 2000 sas De Magistris R. & C. 21. Congress of Augustinian Educators and Schools Via Trento 46, Grottaferrata (Rm) 22. News Flash: Video on Prospero Card. Grech 23. Retreat and Spirituality Center (Incheon, South Korea) Publications: a. James of Viterbo – p. 11 CURIA GENERALIZIA b. Stephen Bellesini – p. 22 AGOSTINIANA Via Paolo VI, 25 – Roma (Italia) Tel. +39.06.680061 Fax +39.06.68006299 OSA Interactive and www.augustinians.net - Information Network of the Order of Saint Augustine E.mail: [email protected] f r Editorial o n Prospero Cardinal Grech t History is, for the most part, p the compilation of the quite or - age dinary events of rather ordinary The New Augustinian Cardinal people. But every now and again something quite special takes place which fills history with un - Prospero Cardinal Grech common color. These are the was born at Birgu, Malta, on events of history that are Christmas Eve, 1925, to Vin - recorded in books, that are com - memorated on our calendars, cent Grech and Amelia Gatt. and that are studied and dis - At baptism he was given the cussed in classrooms and confer - name Stanley. After complet - ence halls. ing primary and secondary ed - ucation in Malta he attended One such event drew the at - the University of London and tention of many people, certainly the Royal University of Malta, the members of the Order and at which latter institution he of the entire Augustinian Family when, this past January 6th, Pope began a course of medicine, Benedict announced his inten - but after a year he withdrew. tion to create 22 new cardinals During World War II he and included in their number served in the University Home our own Fr. Prospero Grech. We Guard, RMA, as an anti-air - were surprised and taken off craft gunner, and in 1943, en - guard! The last member of the tered the Augustinian Order Order to enter the College of taking the name Prospero. Cardinals was Sebastiano Cardi - 3 He was professed in August, nal Martinelli, who was named Creation as cardinal in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City cardinal priest on April 15, 1901 1944, and pursued two years of philosophical studies at the 2 and received the red hat on May 1 8, 1901. Cardinal Martinelli died Order’s school of theology in Rabat. In 1946, he was sent to the 0 in 1918. Thus, it has been 110 Collegio Santa Monica in Rome for theology, after which he was 2 years since an Augustinian was ordained priest on March 25, 1950 in the Lateran Basilica. – called to the College, and 94 1 years since the last Augustinian Father Prospero obtained a diploma for summer course work Cardinal died. Consequently, Fr. done in educational philosophy at the University of Fribourg in Prospero, who in his own right was already a colorful person Switzerland, and in 1953 ob - before the announcement and tained his doctorate in Theol - the biretta came, will now find a ogy from the Gregorian Uni - special place among a very small versity with a thesis on “The number of historic figures. Atonement and God in Mod - ern English Theology.” He It did not take very long after then studied Sacred Scripture the announcement of January at the Pontifical Biblical Insti - 6th was made, for the many who know the cardinal to realize just tute in Rome, obtaining the how fitting the Holy Father's se - Licentiate summa cum laude , lection was, as we hope others and spent an additional year will see in the pages that follow. in preparation for the Doctor - We proudly pay special tribute ate. In 1954 he was a partici - to our worthy confrere in this is - pant in an archeological visit sue of OSA INT and wish him to the Holy Land. long life and continued fruitful ministry in the Order and in the service of the Church. In that same year Father Prospero returned to Malta Fr. Michael Di Gregorio, OSA and taught for two years at the Coordinator of Communications Augustinian Theological Col - His Eminence Prospero Card. Grech E G lege and at Mater Admirabilis Training College in Rabat. In 1957 a he obtained a British Council p scholarship to Oxford University t where he read Hebrew with Pro - fessor G. Driver, and Education as n well. The following year he was in - o vited to the University of Cam - r bridge as research assistant to Pro - f fessor A. J. Arberry who was doing studies on Maltese Literature, while he continued his own stud - ies of Hebrew. In 1959 Father Prospero re - turned to his teaching positions in Creation as cardinal at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City Malta for two years, after which he left for Rome in order to complete his thesis in biblical studies. Shortly after, however, he was chosen as secretary of the Vatican Vicariate by Bishop Van Lierde, O.S.A., and in this position took part in the conclave that elected Paul VI as pope. In 1965 he was chosen as president of the Istituto Teologi - co Augustinianum and lectured there as well. In 1970 with Father Agostino Trapè he founded the Isti - tuto Patristico Augustinianum and was elected its first president, a position he held until 1979. In the same year, 1970, he began a 32 year career lecturing on hermeneutics at the Pontifical Biblical Insti - tute and from 1971 to 1989 taught biblical theology also at the Pontifical Lateran University. He was chosen as a member of the commission for the preparation of Sapientia christiana , the magna carta of 4 all pontifical universities. In 1984 Father Grech was named a Consultor of the Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith in which he still serves, and in 1998 Apostolic Visitator for seminaries in India. In 2003 he was named to the Pontifical Theological Academy by the Vatican Secretary of State and in 2004 to the Pontifical Biblical Commission. In December, 2011, he was made a Companion of the National Order of Merit of Malta by President George Abela. Father Prospero has also been actively pastorally in the ministry provided the public chapel of Santa Monica in Rome, has been a member of the commission for dialogue with the Orthodox in Sofia and has engaged in talks with the Orthodox in Bucharest, Moscow and Greece. In his free time he is an avid photographer and student of art history and classical music. In addition to Latin, Greek, Hebrew and his native Maltese, he is proficient in English, Italian, French, German and Dutch. As an author of books and articles, his bibliography fills many pages. On the Solemnity of the Epiphany, January 6, 2012, Pope Benedict announced his inten - tion to create 22 new cardinals, among them Father Prospero Grech of the Order of Saint Au - gustine. Accordingly, he was or - dained to the episcopacy on Feb - ruary 8, 2012 in Malta by Msgr. Paul Cremona, Archbishop of Malta, and was named titular Archbishop of San Leone. On February 18, 2012, he was created Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church and assigned the title of Creation as cardinal at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City Saint Maria Goretti. Augustinian Cardinals during the 19 th - 20 th centuries Tommaso Maria Marti - the anniversary of his episcopal consecration, nelli OSA, was born on March 30, 1888, in Rome following a brief but se - February 4, 1827 in vere illness. Bishop Luigi Sepiacci, OSA, then Sec - Luc ca, Italy, the eldest retary of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and of five children. He en - Regulars, celebrated the requiem mass at Sant’ tered the Order in 1842 Agostino on April 4, 1888. Eighteen cardinals were and was professed on in attendance. Cardinal Martinelli was interred in April 19, 1844. Two of the Order’s mausoleum in the cemetery of Campo his brothers were also Verano, Rome. A man of great simplicity, he pre - members of the Order, ferred as cardinal to live with the Irish friars at Father Aurelio, for their friary of Santa Maria in Posterula, where he many years prior at Genazzano, and Cardinal Se - participated in the life of the community as far as bastiano.