Adílio Daronch

Blessed Adílio Daronch (25 October 1908 - 21 May 1924) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic adolescent.[3][4] Daronch was born to immigrants and lived his entire life in Brazil where he was known to have had a love for football and riding. He became a dedicated altar server following the reception of his First Communion and often accompanied the priest Blessed Manuel Gómez González on his long missions of evangelization.[5] The pair were murdered in 1924 on one such mission after revolutionaries became outraged with Manuel's active apostolate in their area.[3][4]

Blessed
Adílio Daronch
Martyr
Born(1908-10-25)25 October 1908
Dona Francisca, Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Died21 May 1924(1924-05-21) (aged 15)
Feijão Miúdo, Três Passos, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church
Beatified21 October 2007, Municipal Exposition Park, Frederico Westphalen, Brazil by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins
Feast21 May
AttributesPalm
Patronage

The pair's beatification process opened in Brazil in the late 1990s and culminated on 21 October 2007 with their beatification held in Brazil.[4][5] Daronch was made the co-patron for WYD 2013 and in 2012 was made the patron for the Diocese of Frederico Westphalen.[1][6]

Life

Adílio Daronch was born in Brazil in Rio Grande do Sul on 25 October 1908 as the third of eight children born to the immigrants Pietro Daronch (d. 5.5.1923) and Giuditta Segabinazzi (2.2.1884-23.3.1932).[3] His father was an immigrant from Agordo in the Belluno province who settled in Brazil in 1890.[4] His mother was also an immigrant. In 1911 the Daronch's moved to Passo Fundo and then again in 1913 to Nonoai. He was baptized on 1 November. His siblings were (in order):

  • Herminia
  • Abílio
  • Zolmira
  • Carmelinda
  • Annita
  • João
  • Vilma

His sister Zolmira recounted that Daronch loved football and was a well-liked child.[5] His sister Zolmira was born after the Daronch's moved to Passo Fundo while his siblings Carmelinda to Vilma were all born after the Daronch's next relocation.[4] His Italian paternal grandparents were Sebastiano Da Ronch (b. 1829) and Francesca Schena (b. 1838) and his paternal uncles (in order) were Luigi and Vincenzo as well as his aunt Giovanna Maria; his father was the last-born to his grandparents.[5] The Daronch's arrived in Rio de Janeiro from Genoa on the ship "Europa" on 1 December 1890 and his father began work as an apprentice shoemaker. His maternal grandparents were Felippe and Praxedes Girardi.[1]

His parents married on 15 January 1905 at a wedding that the Pallottine priest Guido Spiesbenger oversaw. His father was later murdered in 1923.

He became a student at a school that the priest Blessed Manuel Gómez González managed and Daronch also accompanied the priest on his visits to the Kaingang Indians as part of his work in the missions. He served as an altar server after he made his First Communion (1917 or 1918) at which point he began serving Mass for the Father Manuel.[3][4]

He and Gómez González were shot and killed on one such trip after some revolutionaries attacked the pair. The Bishop of Santa Maria asked Manuel in 1924 to go to the Teutonic colonies in the forest in the south so Manuel decided to take Daronch with him; the two set off on this mission on 2 March around Easter.[4] The pair stopped in Palmeria to administer the sacraments where Manuel exhorted the local revolutionaries to practice mutual respect and forgiveness. But the extremists took a strong dislike to this and grew incensed when Manuel provided a burial for some of their own. The extremists viewed the pair with suspicion and plotted to kill them for this.[3]

The pair stopped in Braga (where some soldiers were stationed) to ask for directions where he attended Manuel's final Mass in a ruined chapel on 20 May. The locals warned the two not to go into the forest for the two would be at risk if that happened.[3][4] The pair were ambushed in the morning on 21 May (and ordered off their mules) and were taken into a remote area in the forest before being bound to separate trees and shot dead.[4] Their remains were discovered later on 25 May and were buried before being exhumed and relocated to the parish church in Nonoai in 1964. The people placed a monument on their place of death.[3][5]

Beatification

The beatification cause opened on 29 March 1996 under Pope John Paul II after the Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued the "nihil obstat" and titled Daronch as a Servant of God; the cause was joined to Father Manuel. The diocesan process was held from 1996 to 1997 with the C.C.S. validating the investigation on 4 December 1998. The postulation sent the Positio to the C.C.S. for assessment in 2001 at which point historians met and approved the dossier on 13 February 2001; theologians approved it as well on 26 September 2006 as did the C.C.S. cardinal and bishop members that 21 November. Daronch and Manuel's beatification received papal confirmation from Pope Benedict XVI a month later on 16 December after the pope confirmed that the pair were killed "in odium fidei" (in hatred of the faith).

Their beatification was celebrated in Rio Grande do Sul on 21 October 2007 with Cardinal José Saraiva Martins presiding over the celebration on the pope's behalf.

The current postulator for this cause is Dr. Paolo Vilotta.

Patronage

In mid-2012 he was announced as a co-patron for WYD 2013.[2][6]

On 21 September 2012 the Frederico Westphalen diocese announced that Daronch and Father Manuel were the newest patrons for the diocese after the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments confirmed the request (lodged on 10 June 2012) in a decree on 14 September.[1] The apostolic nuncio Giovanni d'Aniello received the news of this confirmation before likewise informing the diocesan bishop of this.

Notes and references
  1. "Blesseds Manuel Gonzales and Adílio Daronch are confirmed as patrons of the diocese of Frederico Westphalen". Gaudium Press. 26 September 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  2. "Blessed Adilio Daronch - WYD2013 Patron of the Week". 5 November 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  3. "Bl. Adílio Daronch". Holy See. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  4. "Manuel Gómez González e Adilio Daronch". Postulazione Cause Santi. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  5. "Beato Adilio Daronch". Santi e Beati. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  6. "John Paul II, St. Therese of Lisieux among WYD Rio patron saints". Catholic News Agency. 30 May 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
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