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Pietro "Pierino" Gelmini (20 January 1925–12 August 2014) was a prominent Italian former Roman Catholic priest who founded the drug abuse rehabilitation center ''Comunità Incontro'' (Community Encounter). Despite his 1971 imprisonment on charges of fraud, Gelmini has been highly regarded for his work with the drug-addicted, having received praise from such figures as media tycoon and prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who gave € 5 million (six million dollars) to ''Comunità Incontro'' in 2005, and the Italian Senator Maurizio Gasparri, who once celebrated him as "one of the few heroes of our time."〔("Ex-Priest Faces Abuse Charges" ) (18 June 2010). AFP. News24. Retrieved 7 July 2010.〕〔("Eminent Italian Ex-Priest to Stand Trial for Abuse" ) (18 June 2010). Reuters. Retrieved 7 July 2010.〕 Personally accused of sexual abuse by a total of twelve young men who claim to have been victimized while recovering at Gelmini's Amelia rehabilitation center, Gelmini was indicted in June 2010 and is currently awaiting a trial set to commence in 2011. Gelmini has been laicized from the priesthood at his own request.〔 ==Biography== Pierino Gelmini was born Pietro Gelmini in 1925 in Pozzuolo Martesana, a small community in the Province of Milan, and grew up and studied in his native Lombardy. (His official biography records him as a member of the Italian Resistance during the Second World War.〔(Don Pierino Gelmini. ) Comunità Incontro. Retrieved 7 July 2010. 〕) He was ordained in the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church in 1949. Gelmini's younger brother, Angelo Gelmini (born 1931), was ordained in 1952 and is well known as Padre Eligio. Gelmini transferred to work in Rome in the 1950s. Gelmini's experiences in Rome prompted his creation of the drug rehabilitation group ''Comunità Incontro'' (Community Encounter) in Amelia, Italy, where Gelmini purchased an abandoned mill and refurbished it to serve as a community therapy house after a personal encounter with an 18-year-old victim of a drug addiction lying in the middle of a street gutter.〔Owen, Margaret (1989). ("New Hope for Sero-Positive Intravenous Drug Abusers in a Therapeutic Community House". ) ''Community Development Journal'' Vol. 24, No. 3. pp. 210-217. Oxford Journals. Retrieved 7 July 2010.〕 (In publications, the Comunità Incontro records the 13 February 1963 date of Gelmini's meeting with the young drug addict, Alfredo Nunzi, as the date of its founding, although its first center at the Amelia mill was only opened on 27 September 1979.〔〔(Comunità Incontro. ) Associazioni. Diocesi di Terni Narni Amelia. Retrieved 9 July 2010. 〕) Italian investigative press reports during the 2000s uncovered that in the 1960s and 1970s Gelmini was investigated for the white-collar charges of bankruptcy fraud and writing bad checks by prosecutors.〔Nazzi, Stefano (22 June 2010). ("Don Gelmini, il bene e il male". ) ''Il Post''. Retrieved 9 July 2010. 〕〔("La vera storia di don Pierino: 'Quattro anni passati in carcere'" ) (5 August 2007). ''Quotidiano.net''. Retrieved 7 July 2010. 〕 (He was arrested a total of three times between 1960 and 1976.〔Giannino, Alberto (18 June 2010). ("Pierino Gelmini: un ex prete, rico e potente, rinviato a giudizio per molestie sessuali". ) IMGPress. Retrieved 9 July 2010. 〕) The troubled Gelmini left Italy but ran into similar trouble in South Vietnam, where allegations of foul play involved embezzling from the influential Huế Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục and the widow of Ngô Đình Diệm, the overwhelmingly Buddhist country's Roman Catholic first president and dictator.〔〔〔 In Italy, he received a four-year prison sentence for fraud upon his return in 1971.〔〔 Although briefly suspended from his priestly work (''cessatio a divinis'') during this time, he was forgiven by the Catholic Church and continued working within its hierarchy.〔 Such less-than-pleasant facts were not widely publicized in the press at the time and were systematically omitted from all of Gelmini's official biographies.〔 Gelmini's last run-in with the law before the filing of sexual abuse charges in the 2000s occurred in 1976, when he was investigated for corruption but acquitted in court in 1977.〔 Despite such personal troubles, ''Comunità Incontro'' successfully expanded into a veritable network of services dedicated to the addicted and their varieties of social problems. At the beginning of the 1990s, Gelmini volunteered to be injected with an experimental AIDS vaccine in a study dedicated to finding an approach to dealing with HIV.〔("Don Gelmini anti AIDS" ) (29 June 1992). ''Corriere della Sera'', p. 19. Retrieved 7 July 2010. 〕 A highly visible social figure towards the end of the 1980s, Gelmini produced written works in the 1990s which described both ''Centro Incontros therapeutic approach and his own experiences. Some writing was translated into Slovenian and French; a 1993 English translation, ''A Plan for Life Community Encounter: Origins, History, Growth'', was printed in the United Kingdom by St. Paul's Press. In Italy, Gelmini's work became a subject of various domestic writers. Having established its first foreign center in 1987, the ''Comunità Incontro'' organization had grown to encompass more than two hundred chapters around the world by the late 2000s, including a number outside Italy and as far away as South America and Asia. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi presented a speech on the occasion of Gelmini's birthday in January 2005.〔 (Berlusconi donated a gift of € 5 million to ''Comunità Incontro'' chapters in Thailand following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami disaster.〔) The politician Maurizio Gasparri characterized him as "one of the few heroes of our time."〔 Mass media reports worldwide have described Gelmini as politically well-connected.〔〔("Italian Priest Charged with Sex Abuse" ) (19 June 2010). Press TV. Retrieved 8 July 2010.〕〔("Ex-Priest Indicted in Italy for Molesting Kids" ) (18 June 2010). Associated Press. CBS News. Retrieved 7 July 2010.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pierino Gelmini」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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