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Archivissima 2024 -- The Festival and Night of the Archives

On June 7, 2024, the General Archives and Library of the Carmelite Order held a discussion entitled Aut Pati Aut Mori: The Symbolism of the Heart in Carmelite Female Iconography at Centro Internazionale Sant'Alberto (CISA) in Rome.

Art historian, teacher, and author of several books, Ruggiero Doronzo and Carmelite Charló Camilleri, spiritual theologian, dialogued rather than presenting as in a traditional conference format. The discussion centered on chalcographic engravings from the modern age (16th-18th centuries) kept in the General Archives of the Order. Special reference to the figures of St. Teresa of Avila, St. Maria Magdalena De' Pazzi and the Venerable Rosa Maria Serio.

Archivissima 2024--The Festival and Night of the Archives is a cultural initiative that took place throughout Italy from June 6 to 9.

Doronzo authored the book Iconografia Carmelitana al Femminile which was published by Edizioni Carmelitane.

View the conference on YouTube

The Institutum Carmelitanum and Edizioni Carmelitane will be hosting a presentation of the book La demolita chiesa di S. Nicola dei Cesarini a Roma (The Demolished Church of S. Nicola dei Cesarini in Rome) at Centro Internazionale San’ Alberto on Wednesday, October 25, 2023, at 17:45.

See the latest publications of Edizioni Carmelitane at https://edizionicarmelitane.org/

After the Covid pandemic the community of Centro Internazionale di San’Alberto returned to a celebration of the new academic year with the two international communities in Rome participating. Every year at the beginning of the month of October, CISA there is opening of the academic year. Again this year, on October 12, with the prayer of vespers and an introduction by prior general Míċeál O'Neill on the importance of community and fraternal life, we met with members of the General Curia and entered into a new year of work and study.

The CISA community is composed of the members of the Institutum Carmelitanum, the archivist and librarian, and the students pursuing higher studies and specializations. This year members come from the provinces, commissariats, delegations in the Congo, Indonesia, India, Italy, Kenya, Malta, Timor Este, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.

Students are studying at different universities in Rome, e.g. the Gregorian University, the Biblicum, the Salesianum ,and others. CISA, although it is a house of studies and research, is striving to live religious community life. In the academic year, there are times planned on a regular basis for Lectio divina, community prayer, retreat days, community meetings, formation days, and all that we need to improve the life of the brothers.

During the previous year CISA successfully closed with three members receiving doctorates in various theological subjects (see CITOC #74 and #146). Also during the current year, considerable energy went into unifying the general library with the Carmelite library under Mario Alfarano, O. Carm.

CISA hosts many visitors during the normal year, providing hospitality for the various international meetings of the Carmelite Family, as well as member of the Order and others who come to Rome for various reasons. The so-called “permanent community” is composed of the 7 confreres from the different countries of the world under the leadership of the prior of CISA, Tadeusz Popiela, O. Carm.

Two members of the CISA Community in Rome recently received doctorates from the Pontifical Gregorian University. Djomandji Zofiet Guy Martial, O. Carm., from Cameroun in the German Province, defended his thesis on Le retour à l’imagine et à la resemblance de Dieu dans les Exercices de dix jours chez Jean de Saint-Samson.

The second doctorate was awarded to Joseph Tri Phan, a member of the North American Province of St. Elias. His thesis was titled Toward a Fully Co-responsible Sharing in Evangelization and Ministry Specific to Carmel: The Impact of the Carmelite Reception of Vatican II's Ecclesiology and Theology of the Laity on the Secular Order of Carmelites in Asia.

Both men will now return to their respective countries to minister. We pray that their ministries may bear much fruit.