Rosario Livatino
Rosario Angelo Livatino (Italian pronunciation::; October 3, 1952 – September 21, 1990) was an Italian magistrate who was killed by Stidda.
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 Beatification process
- 3 See also
- 4 References
- 5 External links
Biography
Livatino was born in Canicattì, in Sicily. After successfully completing high school, he entered the university Law Faculty in Palermo in 1971, and graduated in 1975. Between 1977 and 1978 he serviced as vice-director in the Register Office in Agrigento. In 1978, after being among the top percentage in the Judiciary audit, he was *igned a post as magistrate at the court at Caltanissetta.
In 1979 he became "sos*uto procuratore" (deputy prosecutor) at the Agrigento court, a position he kept until 1989, when he was appointed *istant judge (giudice a latere). He was murdered on September 21, 1990, along route SS 640 by four killers, as he travelled without bodyguard to the court. The **ins had been paid by the Stidda of Agrigento.
During his career, Livatino worked against corruption, and gained success in a number of cases, obtaining the seizure of large sums of money and property and the arrest of senior figures in organised crime.
His story inspired a novel, Il giudice ragazzino ("The Boy Judge"), written by Nando Dalla Chiesa in 1992, and this was made into a film with the same *le in 1994 by director Alessandro di Robilant.
Beatification process
In 1993 the Bishop of Agrigento asked Rosario Livatino's former teacher, Ida Abate, to collect any available testimony for Livatino's beatification.
Pope John Paul II said that Rosario Livatino was a "Martyr of Justice and in an indirect way, of the Christian Faith".
In December 2020, Pope Francis approved the decree of martyrdom proposed by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Servant of God Rosario Angelo Livatino has been officially proclaimed Blessed on Sunday, 9 May 2021, in the Cathedral of Agrigento, Sicily by Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on the same day John Paul II, in 1993, at the Valley of the Temples, addressed his peremptory invitation to the Mafia: "Convert! once God's judgment will come!
See also
- List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia
References
External links
- *ociazione Livatino
- Rosario Livatino - Il giudice ragazzino -
- I giudici R. Livatino e A. Saetta
- List of Sicilian Mafia members
- List of Sicilian Mafia members by city
- Grand Hotel des Palmes Mafia meeting 1957
- First Mafia War (1961–1963)
- Second Mafia War (1981–1983)
and bombings
- Portella della Ginestra m*acre (1947)
- Ciaculli bombing (1963)
- Viale Lazio m*acre (1969)
- Circonvallazione m*acre (1982)
- Via Carini m*acre (1982)
- Via Federico Pipitone m*acre (1983)
- Train 904 bombing (1984)
- Pizzolungo bombing (1985)
- Capaci bombing (1992)
- Via D'Amelio bombing (1992)
- Via dei Georgofili bombing (1993)
- Via Palestro m*acre (1993)
- Italian Antimafia Commission (members)
- Direzione Investigativa Antimafia
- State-Mafia Pact
- Addiopizzo
- Pen*o
- List of victims of the Sicilian Mafia
- 1960s Sicilian Mafia trials
- Maxi Trial (1986–1992)
- Pizza Connection Trial (1985–1986)
- American Cosa Nostra
- Anonima sarda
- Banda della Comasina
- Banda della Magliana
- Basilischi
- Beati Paoli
- Camorra
- Corsican mafia
- Unione Corse
- Garduña
- Italian brigandage (19th century)
- Sicilian brigandage and rebels (20th century)
- Mala del Brenta
- 'Ndrangheta
- Sacra Corona Unita
- Stidda
- Stuppagghiari
- Vendicatori
- American Cosa Nostra
- Organized crime in Italy
- Mafia bibliography