Camillo Pace

Camillo Pace (Paglieta, 16 May 1862 - Pescara, 1948) was an Italian Protestant pastor known for his work of evangelization and also for having made known, since 1930, the existence in Germany of a Protestant antinazi resistance.

Biography

Very young in 1879 he enlisted in the Guardia di Finanza. Ended military service, he is dedicated to trade.[1] The encounter with the Protestantism and the Plymouth Brethren is in Pescara where he began studying theology and he will deepen it by following in London and Plymouth.

From 1889 Pace begins an intense activity of evangelisation in Abruzzo to Paglieta, Gissi, Lanciano and Pescara.[2] In 1925 he moved with his wife Lucia Pace form Pescara to Florence where he took part as leader of the "Istituto Comandi",[3] a center founded in 1876 by Giuseppe Comandi as an orphan asylum, home and education institute for orphans or young without family. In 1928 Pace published a religious treaty about Augustine of Hippo.[4]

Endowed with a strong personality and eloquence, since 1930, with Gino Veronesi, Pace became the Director of the "Ebenezer", a newspaper printed by the Istituto Comandi which, although born in the narrow confines of the Plymouth Brethren,[5] published articles open to most important social and human activities also giving voice to the Protestant antinazist resistance in Germany.[6] Pace was inscribed in his youth, and before of his Religious conversion to a Masonic Lodge,[7] and for having asserted in his sermons to be against the war, from 1939 he was accused by the Italian Fascists to be anti-fascist. For this fact Pace was persecuted[8] until his deportation in 1942 in Calabria.[9] He accepted the persecution without rebelling, according to the will of God.[10] At the end of the war he returned to Pescara.

Camillo had five children among which Aurelio Pace,[11] a member of the Partito d'Azione in Florence,[12] an historian of Unesco and father of founder of the "Filtranisme", the artist Joseph Pace, and Mario Vonviller[13] of the Plymouth Brethren in Switzerland.

Camillo Pace died in 1948 in Pescara, then 86, in the house of his son Aurelio Pace that during the World War II fought as an Italian Officer with the British Eighth Army in Italy.

References

  1. ↑ Marcella Fanelli, Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo, Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Torino, 2001, pag. 329
  2. ↑ Cenni di storia del movimento delle assemblee dei fratelli in Italia, Chiese dei Fratelli in Italia, Dio è con te, paragrafo 5 e 6
  3. ↑ Marcella Fanelli, Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo, Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Torino, 2001, pag. 270/271
  4. ↑ Le Biografie, Camillo Pace, Associazione Storico Culturale Sant'Agostino
  5. ↑ Andrea Diprose, Recensione del libro di G. Spini: Italia di Mussolini e protestanti, pag.5/6
  6. ↑ G. Spini, Italia di Mussolini e Protestanti, Torino, Claudiana, Italy, 2007, pag 234
  7. ↑ Marcella Fanelli, Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo, Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Torino, 2001, Pag. 330
  8. ↑ Andrea Diprose, Lux Biblica, Claudiana, Torino, Recensioni: G. Spini, Italia di Mussolini e Protestanti, foglio 5/6
  9. ↑ Marcella Fanelli, Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo, Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Torino, 2001, pag. 432
  10. ↑ Marcella Fanelli, Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo, Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Torino, 2001, Pag. 432
  11. ↑ Marcella Fanelli, Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo, Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Torino, 2001, Pag. 270
  12. ↑ Joseph Pace' Filtranisme, di Marcello Paris,, Equitazione&Ambiente Arte, Roma, Italia, 2008
  13. ↑ Marcella Fanelli, Passeggiata lungo il XX secolo, Edizioni GUB, Claudiana, Torino, 2001, pag. 359

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