Corti storiche
Piazza Padre Reginaldo Giuliani
Piazza Padre Giuliani, part of the historic buildings of Cernusco sul Naviglio with its courtyards
The Corte dei Barnabiti (No. 37) and the Corte Granda (No. 4) parade through the square. After the liberation in 1945, it was a space to celebrate the end of the war.
Here is an interesting account by Giuseppina Pirola, included in Giorgio Perego's book "Col cuore in gola": "When, at 4 p.m., the door of Palazzo Tizzoni opened and the provost, coming out, said, 'It's over, it's over,' we all breathed a great sigh of relief. A few days later, the Americans arrived in town; their command headquarters were at Villa Penati. Those were days of euphoria: in Piazza Padre Giuliani, there was music all day and people danced for hours."
Andrea Giuliani was born in Turin on August 28, 1887. As a young man, he embraced religious life in the Dominican Order, taking the name Father Reginaldo. During the First World War, he fought in the trenches with the Arditi of the Third Army, earning the Silver Medal for Military Valor and the Bronze Medal for Military Valor. After the end of the Great War, he served as a preacher at the Church of San Domenico in Turin. A volunteer in the Ethiopian War, he was appointed military chaplain and fell in the Battle of the Uarieu Pass on January 21, 1936, killed by scimitar blows during the fury of the fighting while treating the wounded. For this action, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Military Valor posthumously. The then Military Ordinary for Italy, Cardinal Fossati, said of him: "Death broke a steel fiber in him, but not his life. He who repeated, 'I will never be forced to choose between church and country because in the good of one I have always found the good of the other.' It is love that must be invoked in war, not hatred. Hatred is the son and father of barbarism. Love, however, arises from civilization and generates goodness and peace. Today it is the motherland that is reddened with the blood of its children, of your brothers—the blood that speaks of the ardent affection with which the most beautiful of all fatherlands has been and continues to be loved." Numerous streets and schools in many Italian cities are named after Father Reginaldo. He rests today in the Church of San Domenico in Turin.
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