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Zatti Zefferino, Zefirino Zeffirino zelo Ziggiotti

ORIGINAL	ENGLISH	COMMENT	CITATION
Zatti, Artemide [IT]	Zatti, Artemides	Artemides Zatti was born in Boretto (Reggio Emilia) on October 12, 1880. He experienced difficulties and sacrifices from an early date. By the age of nine he was already earning his living as a day labourer. Poverty forced his family to emigrate to Bahia Blanca, Argentina. Here Artemide began to attend the parish run by the Salesians and developed great confidence in the Parish Priest, Fr. Carlo Cavalli. Advised to become a Salesian, he was accepted as an aspirant by Monsignor Cagliero and, at the age of 23, entered the house of Bernal. Among other things, he was entrusted with the care of a young priest who was suffering from tuberculosis. Artemides caught the disease. He was sent to the hospital of San José. While there, the priest, doctor, Fr. Evarisio Garrone, followed him, in a special way. With him, he asked and received the grace of a cure from Mary Our Help. On his part, he promised to dedicate his whole life to the care of the sick. He was cured and kept his promise. At first, he looked after the hospital Pharmacy. After the death of Fr. Garrone, he was totally responsible for the hospital, which became the scene of his holiness. In 1913 he directed the building of a new hospital, which later, to his great disappointment, was demolished in 1941, to make room for the episcopal residence for the new diocese of Viedma. In 1950, a fall from a stairs forced him to retire. A few months later he showed symptoms of cancer. He died on March 15, 1951. His remains lie in the Salesian Chapel of Viedma. John Paul II beatified him on April 14, 2002, in Rome.
Zefferino, Zefirino Zeffirino [IT]		Cf. comment on Ceferino
zelo [IT]	zeal	The Greek term ''zelos'' means ardour, the act of emulating something (or someone). In religious terms it is a strong sense of ardour, directed to God or for the salvation of souls - in this sense then we hear it used as applied to DB. We see phrases in Salesian discourse such as tireless zeal, the zeal for souls, zeal of the Da mihi animas.. Fr Chavez, following the UISG (Superiors General) meeting in 2004 has begun to use the synonymous term passion much more frequently.	DBcastig:...quando se li vedeva meno docili e corrispondenti al suo zelo.
Ziggiotti, Renato [IT]	Ziggiotti, Renato	Renato Ziggiotti rose to the top after an authentic experience of coming up through the ranks as soldier, then teacher and animator amongst the young. After his experience as a General Counsellor and Vicar he took up the reigns of the Congregation in the difficult post-war years, spurring it on to unity by means of a fervent spiritual life and the charism of Don Bosco. Don Ziggiotti was the first Salesian Rector Major after the generation formed directly in the school of Don Bosco, Founder, and he saw it as necessary to 'fall in again'. His service was exceptional. His postwar period as Rector Major was marked by - other than the normal activities of government - his extraordinary journeys around the world that carried him into direct contact with the reality of the Congregation, helped him to know all of the confreres, gave him ways to confirm and encourage daring programmes. Above all he spurred the Congregation on to rebuild the unity of communities which the wartime events had disturbed through years of separation and segregation. He knew how to rebuild in democratic style, almost heartily, but no less incisively. If he had the gift of command that betrayed something of its 'military' origins, it revealed nevertheless a great interiority. He drew life from God, from the Church, from the Madonna and from Don Bosco. As a result he lived for his confreres and their mission. So little did he see himself as important that after the Council - in which he participated with mind and heart as a true son of the Church - he humbly retired as superior and withdrew to the Sanctuary of Don Bosco on the Becchi Hill, as its first Rector, and then to his beloved Veneto, where he remained until his death.
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