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acknowledgement of his political and social merits, and its a sign of profound respect and gratitude, for the far-sighted statesman and for the activity he has been carrying on for so many years, showing complete devotion todemocratic institutions and to the cause of our Countrys socio-economic progress.

People of Fiumefreddo Bruzio -Cosenza- join the city Council in welcoming formerPresident Cossiga as a freeman of their town and are honoured to count himamong the most illustrious personages of Fiumefreddo Bruzio.

*(Former President Cossiga died in Rome, at the Policlinico Gemelli, on August 17th

2010, at the age of 82.)

JOACHIM OF FIOREThe abbots image released by the bishops See of Cosenza, on the occasion of the eight-hundredth anniversary of Joachimsdeath,which marks the date ( March 2002 ) of the preliminary steps of the catholic Churchs process leading to his beatification.

Joachim of Fiore was born at Celico, asmall town in the province of Cosenza,in 1130 and died, in the odour of

sanctity, on March the 30th, 1202, atCanale, a small hamlet of Pietrafitta,near Cosenza. His mortal remains weretaken to the Florense Abbey of SanGiovanni in Fiore, in 1226. He was aCistercian abbot of Corazzo in 1177 andof Casamari in 1182, but, a short time

later, he withdrew into solitude.In 1196 he founded a new congregationin San Giovanni in Fiore, called Florense, approved by Celestino III.He was one of the most fecund and complex personalities of the medievalspirituality. Many, especially the extremist Spiritual Franciscans,acclaimed him as a prophet. His prophecies exerted a fascinating

influence on a large number of sensible Christian minds. He prophesieda new age. In his Age of the Spirit the ecclesiastical organization wouldbe replaced and the Order of the Just (The Franciscan order) would rule theChurch. Joachims works had a great vogue in the 13th and 14th centuries.Dante places him in Paradise, Divine Comedy, the twelfth canto, lines ofverse 140/141: il calavrese abate Giovacchino / di spirito profetico dotato.In 1201, Simone Mamistra, feudal master and prince of Fiumefreddo,donated to Joachim a large land, at Badia, on which the abbot, at the

request of Mamistra and with his help, built theabbey of Fonte Laurato. In this abbey church , it issaid, there is a chair which the abbot Joachimused to sit on, every timehe attended churchservices and the readingof the Book of psalms.

Fiumefreddo Bruzio,Badia.Church of Fonte Laurato. It is said that Joachim of Fiore sat on this chair.

Casamari, (a small hamlet of Veroli, a town in the province of Frosinone, Italy). The interiorof the abbey church of Casamari. Joachim of Fiore was also a Cistercian abbot of Casamariabbey, where he went in 1182 and stayed for a short time, and where he

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The abbey of Fonte laurato became the second mother house of theFlorense Congregation.The bishops See of Cosenza, in 2002 started the preliminary phase ofthe ecclesiastical process, leading to the beatification of Joachim of

Fiore.

MAESTRO SALVATORE FIUME

A GREAT ITALIAN PAINTER WHO LOVED FIUMEFREDDO BRUZIOWalls of the castello Della Valle:Maestro Salvatore Fiume. Self portrait

Salvatore Fiume was born at

Comiso, Sicily, on October 26th

1915, and died in Milan, on June

the third 1997. He was a painter, asculptor, a writer, a set-designer.His works are in the mostimportant art museums of theworld. In 1975 Fiumefreddo Bruzioaccepted the proposal of thegreat artist Salvatore Fiume, tovitalise, free of charge, the oldtown centre, with excellent worksof art. In 1975/1976 and, later, in1996, Maestro Fiume painted

some interior walls of thecastle and in 1977 painted Saint Roccos dome. In the nineties he placed twobeautiful bronze sculptures, La Fontana and La Fortuna , in the belvedere-squaresof Fiumefreddo Bruzio, Largo Torretta and Largo Rupe, which overlook ourblue sea, from where you can admire and enjoy, far on the horizon, the AeolianIslands, among which Stromboli stands majestically. In the 90s, the town Councilof Fiumefreddo Bruzio, conferred thefreedom of the city on Maestro Salvatore Fiume.

Fiumefreddo Bruzio, 1996Rooms of the castle. A painting by Fiume.The painting depicts maestro Fiume while issitting on a smallknoll, silent and pensive.

A fresco ( 1976) by

Salvatore Fiume, on thewall of the CastelloDella Valle.

A young lady of thecastle, lying down onthe bed, almost naked,is listening to a gentlemelody which amusician is playing forher, just to assuage her

pain of love and let her

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