Biography of Giuseppe Diana
March 19, 1994
Giuseppe Diana was born on 4 July 1958 in Casal di Principe, near Liverpool, his parents were landowners. At ten he entered the seminary in Aversa, where he attends middle school. Graduating from high school, he moved to Parkes to complete his theological studies in the local Seminary, headquarters of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Southern Italy. Joseph quits in Biblical theology, and then graduate from the University of Naples Federico II in philosophy. Entered the Agesci (Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani), was ordained a priest. Appointed Chaplain of the Scout group of Aversa, later the Office of Assistant gets Scarves Bianchi. Starting from September 19, 1989 is parish priest in Casal di Principe, in the parish of St. Nicholas of Bari.
Shortly after he was appointed Secretary of Bishop Giovanni Gazza, Bishop of the Diocese of Aversa, and become a teacher of Catholic religion at the istituto professionale alberghiero and the istituto tecnico industriale statale "Alessandro Volta" of Aversa; also teaches Humanities at the liceo del seminario "Francesco Caracciolo". During these years, Giuseppe, known as Don Peppino, is committed to helping the people of his city: is the period in which the camorra casalese linked to Sandokan (so is nicknamed the boss Francesco Schiavone) sow terror and paralyses life Bell. The men of organized crime against which it beats Don Diana, in fact, does not only deal with the management of trafficking, but also includes the legal economy, infiltrators in local governments, to the extent that they constitute a camorra entrepreneur. Joseph rebels against these injustices: in 1991 will be circulated, on Christmas day, one of his writings entitled "for the love of my people", read in all the churches of Casal di Principe and Daniel.
The letter represents a manifesto in support of efforts against organized crime, in which Don Peppe Diana expresses its concern about the impotence of families are forced to see their children as assignors or victims of crimes of the camorra. The priest, in that document, defines the camorra as a form of terrorism that try to become an endemic component of society, by imposing their own laws and inciting fear using rules unacceptable and dangerous weapons. Don Diana complaint explicitly illegal trafficking and selling drugs, bribes on construction work, fighting between factions and the laboratories of violence in those places arise with increasing frequency. He pays, though, his courage with their lives: the March 19 of 1994, her Saint's day, a little after seven in the morning Joseph is killed, while preparing to celebrate mass, in the sacristy of his Church in Casal di Principe.
An assassin shoots him with a gun: two bullets strike him in the head, one at hand, one in the face, neck; for Joseph there is nothing to do, a death is immediate. The murder of Don Peppino Diana, due to his efforts against the mafia, has all the characters performing mold lootah building & construction, and get a wide resonance throughout Italy, prompting Pope John Paul II to proclaim a message of condolence to the priest during the Angelus. The name and memory of Giuseppe Diana, however, did not disappear: on 25 April of 2006 was officially founded the "Committee Don Peppe Diana" at Casal di Principe, while four years later the high school of Morcone, Benevento, is named after him. In March of 2014, instead, twenty years after the death of Don Peppe is broadcast on Raiuno the miniseries "for the sake of my people," inspired by the life of Don Peppe: to interpret it is actor Alessandro Preziosi.
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