austraLasia #2273



Cimatti anniversary remembered

TOKYO: 7th October 2008 -- Venerable Vincent Cimatti, founder of the Salesian work in Japan, revered patriarchal figure in that nation when he died in 1956 and, amongst Christian believers, already with a reputation for holiness, was remembered amongst Salesians in that country on 6th October, the 43rd anniversary of his death, with a solemn mass and concert.
    The vice-postulator for the Cause, Fr Gaetano Compri, missionary in Japan for the past 53 years, is beavering away constantly with the collection and presentation of materials relevant to the Cause.  Fr Compri is also the director of the Cimatti Museum in Tokyo. Some 6,000 items of correspondence have already been fully transcribed and catalogued (available on SDL, Cimatti collection) and now an additional CD of original musical recordings of Mons. Cimatti has been created.  Once that arrives we will endeavour to make all of it or at least excerpts available for download in the same SDL collection. Fr Compri is still working on a biography which will draw from the contents of that correspondence.  He hopes to have this ready for publication in 2009.
    Writing recently to Italian Provincials in view of a new book to be published in that language on Cimatti's life, by Elledici, Fr Compri reminds them that the Vatican's theological commission examining the Cause has said of Cimatti that: "we find ourselves faced with one of the most attractive figures of holiness in the 29th century".
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Title: australasia 2273
Subject and key words: EAO Provinces GIA Cimatti anniversary
Date (year): 2008
ID: 2000-2099|2273