(copy) Important people from Marcellina and Moricone

Important people in our country

She is a writer who lives in Marcellina

FRANCESCO TOTTI

Ezio Passacantilli

Pierluigi Camilli

Alessandra Paoloni

He is an actor, director, philosopher and a poet who lives in Moricone

He is an actor who lives in Marcellina

He is a footballer who has played for Roma and the Italy national team

Padre Bernardo

He was a monk who lived in Moricone

ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO

Suor Colomba

She was a nun who lived in Moricone

He is a footballer who played for Juventus and for the Italy national team

Moricone's famous characters

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Padre Bernardo

HIS LIFE

HIS STORY

In his life he met the Passionist Fathers. He later took refuge with God. He arrived at the Moricone’s monastery in the 16th of June 1911. But on the 9th of December 1911, while he was on the stairway of the Moricone’s monastery , he fell and later died.

Third of seven children, Cesare was born in a palace of ancient Rome, in Piazza della Minerva, on the the 7th of November 1831; they baptized him the same day. His father Giantommaso is a nobleman of Tuscania (Viterbo); his mother is called Teresa Gozzani.
He completed his studies at the Roman Jesuit College, after that, he attended the Oratory of Caravita (1840-1847).
After entering the house of the Passionist Novitiate of St. Joseph on Monte Argentario (GR) on March 25, 1854, he obtained from the Superior General the faculty of being a guest of the community of the Presentation, always on the Argentario mountain.

The feast of Beato Bernardo is celebrated on the first Sunday of July. During the festival there are religious celebrations, recreational moments and Bernardiadi games, which last 3 days. Each year it has a different theme.
The bernardiadi take place in Padre Bernardo's sanctuary.

BERNARDIADI

Suor Colomba