Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster

See also: Schuster

Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster (born with Rome the January 18th 1880, died with Venegono Inferiore, the August 30th 1954), wire of Giovanni and Maria Anna Tutzer, was Archevêque of cardinal Milan, of the Roman Catholic church and is known for its work on the catholic Liturgie.

Formation and religious life

Enough quickly orphan father, it enters for his studies in the Benedictines of Saint-Paul-out-the-walls; become monk, it makes religious profession in 1900.

After higher learning of Philosophy to the Pontifical College Holy Anselme of Rome, it is ordered priest the March 19th 1904 in the Basilique Midsummer's Day of Lateran.

Thereafter it fills the loads of general Procurateur of the Congrégation bénédictine of the Mount-Cassin, claustral Prieur and in 1918 ordinary Abbé of Saint-Paul-out-the-walls .

Archbishop

He is named archbishop of Milan the June 26th 1929 and cardinal the July 15th 1929. He controlled his Diocèse in difficult times for Milan and the Italy. He took for model his predecessor of the 16th century, Saint Charles Borromée: he was assiduous with the pastoral visits in his immense diocese, and managed to do them five times in his twenty-five years of episcopate. He wrote many letters with the Clergé and to the Fidèle S, meticulous regulations especially in the order of the beauty of the divine Culte gave, organized frequent synods diocesans and two Congrès eucharistic S. By mandate of the pope Pie XI, he reorganized the Milanese seminars in particular by building the Seminar of Theology and the Small Seminar ( Seminario Liceale ) of Venegono Inferiore , inaugurated in 1935.

It partecipa with the Conclave of 1939, which elects Pape the cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (Pie XII). The April 25th 1945, at the end of the Second world war, it organized the rendering of Benito Mussolini without bloodshed by a meeting between this last and the partisans within the framework of the archbishop's palace. He also proposed in Mussolini to remain in the archbishop's palace, under his protection, to go then to the Allies. But the Duce refused, preferring to try to flee.

Under the weight of the age and disease, the Schuster cardinal withdrew himself in the seminar of Venegono , where it died out on August 30th, 1954.

Beatification

He was proclaimed happy by Jean-Paul II the May 12th 1996.

Works

  • Scholar, Alfred Schuster published ten volumes of the Liber Sacramentum (1919-1923).
  • It also created a music school and centers of catholic culture.
  • It held five synods diocesans, having a great concern of the clergy to which it gave the example of the harmonization of contemplation and the pastoral action.
  • All its life, it highly recommended the participation of laic to the parochial life.

Sources

  • Osservatore Romano: 1996 n.20 p.1 - n.21 p.4-5

  • Catholic Documentation: 1996 n.12 p.551-553

  • the little book of the saints - Rosa Giorgi - Larousse - 2006 - ISBN 2-03-582665-9

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