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Don Piero Folli (18 September 1881 in Premeno – 8 March 1948 in Voldomino, Luino) was an Italian antifascist parish priest. ==Biography== Since the years in seminary he shows his opening and sensitivity to social and political problems, sympathizing with workers fights of 1898. In open reaction against any abuse of power and injustice, declared antifascist, since 1923 he suffers every type of harassment, including the fascist punishment of castor oil. In 1923 he arrives in Voldomino near Luino, where he often denounces in his sermons the abuses of power and wrongs of fascist dictatorship. After 8 September 1943 many allied prisoners escaped from concentration camps arrive in the village, young Italian soldiers who failed to report for military service in Italian Social Republic, victims of political persecution (Mauro Scoccimarro, Guido Miglioli, Piero Malvestiti), Jewish sought-after. His house, the sacristy, the oratory, the old nursery school of Santa Liberata are literally invaded by hundreds of escaped people who are welcomed, given hospitality, fed, helped to expatriate until his arrest on 3 December 1943. After three months of hard prison in San Vittore, thanks to the intervention of Card. Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster he is freed and confined first in Cesano Boscone, then in Vittuone. After the war he is permitted to return to Voldomino and start again his life as parish priest, dying after three. He is buried in Voldomino cemetery, on his tomb stone it is written that he was given the treasures of «faith science altruism» that made him «dear to God and his people». A memorial tablet was put on 3 December 1983 on the vault of Piazza Piave in Voldomino. 〔G.De Antonellis (care of), Cattolici ambrosiani per la libertà, Milano, Ned, 1995, pp. 98-102〕 〔Don G.Barbareschi (care of), Memorie di sacerdoti ribelli per amore, Milano, Centro di Documentazione e Studi Religiosi, 1986, pp. 162-166〕 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「Piero Folli」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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