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acknowledgement of his political and social merits, and its a sign of profound respect and gratitude, for the farsighted statesman and for the activity he has been carrying on for so many years, showing complete devotion to democratic institutions and to the cause of our Countrys socio-economic progress.

People of Fiumefreddo Bruzio -Cosenza- join the city Council in welcoming former President Cossiga as a freeman of their town and are honoured to count him among the most illustrious personages of Fiumefreddo Bruzio.
*(Former President Cossiga died in Rome, at the Policlinico Gemelli, on August 17th 2010, at the age of 82.)

JOACHIM OF FIORE
The abbots image released by the bishops See of Cosenza, on the occasion of the eight-hundredth anniversary of Joachims death,which marks the date ( March 2002 ) of the preliminary steps of the catholic Churchs process leading to his beatification.

Joachim of Fiore was born at Celico, a small town in the province of Cosenza, in 1130 and died, in the odour of sanctity, on March the 30th, 1202, at Canale, a small hamlet of Pietrafitta, near Cosenza. His mortal remains were taken to the Florense Abbey of San Giovanni in Fiore, in 1226. He was a Cistercian abbot of Corazzo in 1177 and of Casamari in 1182, but, a short time later, he withdrew into solitude. In 1196 he founded a new congregation in San Giovanni in Fiore, called Florense, approved by Celestino III. He was one of the most fecund and complex personalities of the medieval spirituality. Many, especially the extremist Spiritual Franciscans, acclaimed him as a prophet. His prophecies exerted a fascinating influence on a large number of sensible Christian minds. He prophesied a new age. In his Age of the Spirit the ecclesiastical organization would be replaced and the Order of the Just (The Franciscan order) would rule the Church. Joachims works had a great vogue in the 13th and 14th centuries. Dante places him in Paradise, Divine Comedy, the twelfth canto, lines of verse 140/141: il calavrese abate Giovacchino / di spirito profetico dotato. In 1201, Simone Mamistra, feudal master and prince of Fiumefreddo, donated to Joachim a large land, at Badia, on which the abbot, at the request of Mamistra and with his help, built the abbey of Fonte Laurato. In this abbey church , it is said, there is a chair which the abbot Joachim used to sit on, every time he attended church services and the reading of the Book of psalms.
Fiumefreddo Bruzio, Badia. Church of Fonte Laurato. It is said that Joachim of Fiore sat on this chair. Casamari, (a small hamlet of Veroli, a town in the province of Frosinone, Italy). The interior of the abbey church of Casamari. Joachim of Fiore was also a Cistercian abbot of Casamari abbey, where he went in 1182 and stayed for a short time, and where he

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received permission, from pope Lucio III, to expound and write the Scriptures.

The abbey of Fonte laurato became the second mother house of the Florense Congregation. The bishops See of Cosenza, in 2002 started the preliminary phase of the ecclesiastical process, leading to the beatification of Joachim of Fiore.

MAESTRO SALVATORE FIUME

A GREAT ITALIAN PAINTER WHO LOVED FIUMEFREDDO BRUZIO
Walls of the castello Della Valle:Maestro Salvatore Fiume. Self portrait

Salvatore Fiume was born at Comiso, Sicily, on October 26th 1915, and died in Milan, on June the third 1997. He was a painter, a sculptor, a writer, a set-designer. His works are in the most important art museums of the world. In 1975 Fiumefreddo Bruzio accepted the proposal of the great artist Salvatore Fiume, to vitalise, free of charge, the old town centre, with excellent works of art. In 1975/1976 and, later, in 1996, Maestro Fiume painted some interior walls of the castle and in 1977 painted Saint Roccos dome. In the nineties he placed two beautiful bronze sculptures, La Fontana and La Fortuna , in the belvedere-squares of Fiumefreddo Bruzio, Largo Torretta and Largo Rupe, which overlook our blue sea, from where you can admire and enjoy, far on the horizon, the Aeolian Islands, among which Stromboli stands majestically. In the 90s, the town Council of Fiumefreddo Bruzio, conferred the freedom of the city on Maestro Salvatore Fiume.
Fiumefreddo Bruzio, 1996 Rooms of the castle. A painting by Fiume. The painting depicts maestro Fiume while is sitting on a small knoll, silent and pensive. A fresco ( 1976) by Salvatore Fiume, on the wall of the Castello Della Valle. A young lady of the castle, lying down on the bed, almost naked, is listening to a gentle melody which a musician is playing for her, just to assuage her pain of love and let her

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