Potenza, March 14th, 2026 – Last Saturday, the Easter Precept Mass of the Basilicata Delegation was held, attended by the Delegate Noble Dottore Massimo Calenda. The service was celebrated by Don Antonio Cardillo and Don Giuseppe Cozzi, both serving as the religious leaders of the Delegation.

During the ceremony, Knight Biagio Schettino, who recently passed away in a tragic accident, was remembered.

The Delegation of Basilicata is also engaged this year in the Solidarity Easter, providing support to families in need with essential goods. This activity involves the Delegation throughout the year, but during this period it is expanded to offer relief to those facing difficulties. The ceremony was followed by a reception, attended by Knights and Dames.

L'articolo Basilicata: Easter Precept Mass in Potenza proviene da Sacro Militare Ordine Costantiniano di San Giorgio.

The initiative, organized with the patronage of local and regional institutions and with the participation of the Delegations of Rome and Lazio, Campania, Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Molise, Puglia, and Sicily, represented an important moment of historical remembrance, reflection and spiritual recollection.

The program began on Saturday, February 14th, with the official welcome from the Mayor of Gaeta, Dott. Cristian Leccese, to the Delegates of the Delegations of the former Kingdom and to the public at the Diocesan Museum. There, the participants had the opportunity to admire the Banner of the Battle of Lepanto and the historical artifacts of the Duchy of Gaeta, guided by the Museum’s Director, Don Gennaro Petruccelli.

The first day concluded with a conference held in the Conference Hall of Palazzo De Vio, opened with institutional greetings and followed by a lectio magistralis delivered by Prof. Roberto de Mattei on the topic “Francis II and the End of a Kingdom.”

On Sunday, February 15th, the most solemn moment of the celebrations took place with the Holy Mass at the Sanctuary of the Most Holy Trinity at the Montagna Spaccata, presided over by H.E. the Most Rev. Mons. Luigi Vari, Archbishop of Gaeta and Ecclesiastical Knight Grand Cross of Grace. The Mass was offered in suffrage for the fallen of the Siege of Gaeta (1860–61) and for the last Sovereigns of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Francis II of the Two Sicilies and Maria Sofia.

Afterwards, the Rector of the Sanctuary, Father Daniele Belussi, accompanied the participants to the summit of the cliff of the Montagna Spaccata, at the site where the Transylvania Battery once stood and exploded on February 13th, 1861. The commemorative ceremony included institutional addresses, the casting of a wreath into the sea in honor of the Fallen, the raising of the flag with historical reenactors in period uniforms, and salutes fired with blank ammunition, performed by the “1st King’s Regiment.”

The celebrations were attended by numerous civil, military, and religious authorities, as well as representatives of the Order from various Italian regions, together with members of the local institutions and the associative community. Among the official addresses were those delivered by the Mayor of Gaeta and Egidio D’Addio, President of the Lazio Section of the National Association of Former Nunziatella Students.

The initiative reinforced the historical, cultural, and identity-related significance of the memory of the Siege of Gaeta, a symbol of the end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The substantial participation of the local community highlighted the deep connection of the territory with its history and its commitment to the preservation of collective memory.

L'articolo Celebration of the 165th Anniversary of the End of the Siege of Gaeta (1860–61) proviene da Sacro Militare Ordine Costantiniano di San Giorgio.

L'articolo BASILICATA: JUNE 15, 2024 MEETING proviene da Sacro Militare Ordine Costantiniano di San Giorgio.

Matera, Sunday March 24th – In observance of the mission of the Order, which is collaborating with “Centro Jula” in Scansano Jonico (Matera),  more than 100 Easter packages containing basic foodstuffs have been donated to several parishes of the province of Matera with the blessing of Saint George, Patron of the Constantinian Knights of Basilicata.

L'articolo BASILICATA: DONATION AHEAD OF HOLY EASTER proviene da Sacro Militare Ordine Costantiniano di San Giorgio.

L'articolo BASILICATA: FIRST INVESTITURE CEREMONY OF THE DELEGATION proviene da Sacro Militare Ordine Costantiniano di San Giorgio.

On the initiative of Knight Grand Officer Alcibiade Jula and Dame Maristella D’Alessandro, Radiology center Jula in Scanzano Jonico (Matera, Basilicata) organized a supply of 150 long-life food packages for parish churches to be distributed to needy families. The churches of Pisticci, Marconia, Tinchi, Bernalda, Scanzano, Policoro, Salandra, Montalbano and the kindergarten of Bianca Fiora di Pisticci supervised by the order of nuns Suore Adoratrici della Santa Croce based in the Generalate House of Casoria (Naples).

The event was sponsored by the Lucanian Delegation of the Order.

L'articolo BASILICATA: DONATION IN SCANZANO JONICO proviene da Sacro Militare Ordine Costantiniano di San Giorgio.

The Delegation of Basilicata, led by the Regional Delegate Knight Dr. Massimo Calenda, continues its action of closeness and assistance to the poor and needy present in the territory of Basilicata. In fact, thanks to the generosity and collaboration of the managers of the Pisticci site of the French chemical company Gnosis by Lesaffre, it was possible to receive as a gift 150 liters of detergent with sanitizing action, produced according to the indications of the World Health Organization, which have been widely distributed among various bodies that deal at the forefront of personal assistance. At the time of the donation, Thursday July 29, at the pisticcese plant, Rocco Sileo, Manager of Gnosis by Lesaffre, who offered the material to the Knight Giovanni Quaranta and to Constantinian meritorious Michele Di Maro, intervened on behalf of the Constantinian Regional Delegate of Basilicata. Subsequently, thanks to the logistical support of the company La Carpia Domenico srl, which has offered to take care of transport and delivery, the jerrycans of the sanitizer have reached the identified recipients, including the headquarters of Caritas of the Archdiocese of Matera – Irsina, the Parish of San Rocco in Matera and the Reception Houses “Don Tonino Bello” and “Maria Santissima della Bruna”, with its canteen for the poor renamed “Restaurant San Rocco”, that distributes hundreds of meals daily to those who are forced to live in absolute poverty, the parish of Saint Vincenzo de’Paoli in borgo la Martella, the Parish Beata Vergine del Carmine in Cancellara (PZ) and other consignees at the respective locations of Val d’Agri and Vulture – Melfese. At the end of September a further donation of detergent that will be made available again by the plant Gnosis by Lesaffre is scheduled, continuing and strengthening what has already been done.

L'articolo BASILICATA: DONATION AT THE END OF JULY proviene da Sacro Militare Ordine Costantiniano di San Giorgio.

Matera (MT) – The activity of our Order continues in Basilicata. An event was organized in June in Pisticci; on that occasion, food products were donated to needy families at the parish of Sant’Antonio. On July 18th, a day full of faith and solidarity took place. During this important day, a donation of food products was carried out in favour of the diocesan Caritas, where a meeting took place between the Knights and the Caritas operators, including the director Annamaria Cammisa Natale. Afterwards the Holy Liturgy was held, presided over by H.E.R. Monsignor Antonio Giuseppe Caiazzo, Archbishop of the Diocese of Matera – Irsina, at the Church of Santa Chiara whose rector is Father Luciano Micheli. It was a truly intense event where many Knights from all over the region attended and which was organized by Mr. Alcibiades Jula.

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Pisticci (PZ) – A group of knights and dames participated in the celebrations for Saint Anthony of Padua. The Holy Mass, celebrated by Father Michele Leone, took place on the evening of June 13th. At the end of the ceremony, the knights donated many products for needy families in the region.

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