What had happened during his years ? In general, the fascist repression experienced ups and downs in a surge of violence in alternating periods of relative calm: the alternation was clearly marked by the conjunction of historical events.
Since 1926 reforms be introduced in the local street South of the spies sent by the Ministry of the Interior, and not only doctors, psychiatrists and specialists of all kinds in disguise of supporters attending meetings. Intention of the regime was to document the madness of the Pentecostal manifestations, deemed harmful to society and, therefore, be banned as soon as possible. According to these reports
cults were nothing more than morbid manifestations, reflected in people easily suggestible, because of low cultural level. The table clearly established in the banal and clumsy repetition of content, even adjectives in the reports, although written by different post. The reading of those pages can not help but arouse disbelief, is worth mention some extract made from the many pages: "We gathered three times a week, the so-called" Pentecostieri ... most salient moments in the invocation to declamante bystanders joined with other shouts and gestures, knelt down suddenly, smiting his breast, sobbing, crying with motions that sometimes had the impressive ... all those events should be put in terms of mass suggestion in hysterical epileptic neuropathic subjects ... that show in my opinion is absolutely detrimental affecting mental health dramatically the balance of their faculties. And again: "the new cult ... gives free rein to psychomotor manifestations of an intense mystical exaltation ... can support the development of psychosis have been forced ... repeated the usual scenes of impressive fanaticism ... if there had been a doctor psychiatrist would not have hesitated to take care of many of those present. " The precise descriptions are studded with savage contempt for the faithful, called "fanatics and ignorant ... ungrammatical ... ... incredibly steeped in theories of their condition generally below average. "
Historiography of ours has unfortunately passed over quickly Semitism assumptions and racism in Italy. Years later, under the patronage of the Ministry of Popular Culture, was published in the magazine "The defense of the race," true compendium of racist abstractions of some scholars. These pages outlined the pure Italian race, in fact had already sanctioned the existence of races, characterized by specific facial features, mental, moral and even, according to a school, spiritual.
How then could have tolerated the presence of the "wobble" in the city of Rome, or in the cradle of all fascist symbols? The logical consequence was the infamous round-Drive Buffarini of April 9, 1935 by which he would ban the Pentecostal religion "As a result - we quote verbatim the statement - that it is expressed in religious practices that are contrary to the social and harmful physical and emotional integrity of the breed." The first effect was the promulgation of this termination of appointment granted to the Minister Strappaveccia; in the same month of April the director of the local police station was sealed, and it should be noted, was similarly closed to all Pentecostal Assembly in private. It was the darkest hour. Our brothers were repeatedly reported, most often arrested and taken to the police station, then taken to jail to be booked or condemned to political boundaries. Treated as real criminals, the Pentecostals were marked and identified.
Among the bloodiest cases include that of de Simoni Fidardo brother, slain in the Ardeatine offender because he had hosted a U.S. prisoner. Due mention must be made also of his brother Ivo Nardi, a native of San Gines (MC) and then transferred to Rome, first assigned to the border police and then put literally rotting in a cell, though ill and died five years after age 36. The fury against the Nardi was particularly violent to the work of evangelization that this "fanatical holy man" who practiced tirelessly and made him unpopular with the local clergy. He was denied the crime of insulting the king and emperor. It was not even answered the innocent request to hold correspondence with his brother in law.
Atri Pentecostals were literally targeted and were subjected to repeated harassment. Quirino Pizzini, Pentecostal, and most Italian-American, saw his house in Via Foscolo repeatedly ransacked in the middle of the night from the squad, was beaten when he refused to publicly salute the fascist banner. "Worship your God and him only shalt thou serve" to respond to those who called on it to bend. As a result of repeated beatings our brother had serious health consequences. It should not be withheld even in the case of Ernesto Biagio, who was arrested while presiding over a cult, he served seventy-two days in jail and was later returned to his hometown, Sonnino, chained like a criminal and placed on a cart in order to give public performances.
So from 1936 to 1944 the Pentecostal meetings were held secretly at the house of the faithful who, in order not to be surprised by the machine OVRA followed a proper procedure to avoid being discovered. We reached the house with an attitude entirely discrete set, we approached a couple, with the Bible properly hidden, at a sufficient distance ahead of the other couple. During the meeting, the songs were whispered, as believers in turn remained standing near the door to watch. The police raids came a few Once thwarted thanks to a providential warning, however, most of the time, believers were caught in the act and arrested. The men of the fascist police were unable to find the Pentecostals everywhere, even in rural areas more distant from population centers, especially thanks to the help given to him by hired women and men who pretended interest in the Gospel but in fact they gathered information about meeting places to relate everything to the police station.
The reprisals were even more cruel to coincide with critical phases of the war, such as the Allied landing. It happened that June 6, 1943, in two different houses, police surprised forty believers following a tip-off of an informer, this episode of the lucid testimony of Emma Rome, issued in the "Protestant" in 1983, which tells of the arrest suffered during a meeting in his house in Via Alessandro Cialdi 28. "I heard knocking on the door, and I was threatened that if I did not open, they broke down the door. They told me that what we were doing was prohibited. Shortly after we were arrested and taken to police headquarters. " Twenty-six of these brothers were held in Regina Coeli for twenty-three days, fifteen other ammonites and some of them sentenced to confinement by the police for three or five years, including Louis Arcangeli, Giuseppe Gorietti, Teresa and Peter Remoli Nigido Rastelli. The latter sentence imposed was never taken for granted since July 25, 1943 fell on fascism. Fascist Italy had lost the war even the most innocuous of the enemy: the Pentecostal people. "The joy, the joy was great - he says his brother Salvatore Gemelli in his autobiography - you can not describe ... after nine years of persecution and deprivation, we were finally free to profess our faith, to God be all the Glory."
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