No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
The Archives of the Consolata Mission and the Formation of the Italian Empire, 1913-1943*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 May 2014
Extract
The Institute of the Consolata for Foreign Missions was founded in Turin, Italy in 1901 by the General Superior, Giuseppe Allamano (1851-1926). The primary purpose of the mission is to evangelize and educate non-Christian peoples. Allamano believed in the benefit of religion and education when he stated that the people “will love religion because of the promise of a better life after death, but education will make them happy because it will provide a better life while on earth.” The Consolata distinguishes itself for stressing the moral and secular education and its enthusiasm for missionary work. To encourage young people to become missionaries, Allamano convinced Pius X to institute a world-wide mission day in 1912. Allamano's original plan was for his mission to work among the “Galla” (Oromo) people of Ethiopia and continue the mission which Cardinal Massaia had begun in 1846 in southwestern Ethiopia. While waiting for the right moment, the Consolata missionaries ministered among the Kikuyu people of Kenya. In 1913 the Propaganda Fides authorized the Consolata Mission to begin work in Kaffa, Ethiopia. In 1919 it entered Tanzania and, accepting a government invitation in 1924, the Consolata installed itself in Italian Somalia and in 1925 in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique. Before the World War I the mission also expanded in Brazil, in 1937, and after 1937 its missionaries went to Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Canada, the United States, Zaire, Uganda, South Africa, and South Korea.
- Type
- Research Article
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © African Studies Association 1998
Footnotes
*
This paper was presented at the Convegno Internazionale: Fonti e Problemi della Politica Coloniale Italiana, Messina-Taormina, 23-29 October 1989.
To protect the privacy of persons who might be still alive, names of senders and receivers are omitted. Hence only the Consolata mission archive position is reported here, followed by the number of the document cited—e. g., archival position VI-2/1925, document number 350.
References
1 VI-2/1913, #342.
2 IV-5/1912, #1442,1448: this file contains information concerning the political reasons for Italian presence in Kaffa.
3 VIII-4/1919, #4.
4 IV-5/1912, #1442.
5 VIII-4/1917, #44; VIII-4/1920, #3.
6 VI-2/1915, #363-364; VI-2/375.
7 VIII-4/1915, #21.
8 VIII-4/1919, #4.
9 VIII-4/1920, #3.
10 VIII-4/1920, #3; VIII-4/1921, #3.
11 X/215, #3. In this category files are not organized by year, instead follow a sequential numbering system.
12 X/207, #1.
13 VIII-4/1922,#7.
14 VIII-4/1924, #4.
15 VIII-4/1927, #5.
16 VIII-4/1914, #13.
17 VIII-4/1929, #19.
18 X/202.
19 VIII-4/1920, #1.
20 VIII-4/1926, #5; VIII-4/1926, #8.
21 IV-6/1920, #1544.
22 IV-2/1927, #226. The same group financed the gathering of information in southern Ethiopia; see VIII-6/1929, #19.
23 VI-2/1919, #425.
24 IV-4/1934, #757.
25 IV-4/1935, #767a.
26 IV-2/1926, #22.
27 VI11-4/1935, #59.
28 IV-4/1934, #750 and 753.
29 IV-2/1927, #218;IV-2/1928,#80.
30 VIII-4/1922, #7; VIII-4/1923,5.
31 VI-2/1919, #429.
32 IV-4/1921, #982.
33 IV-4/1921, #999.
34 IV-4/1918, #862.
35 IV-2/1926, #56.
36 VI-2/1921, #508a.
37 IV-4/1933, #706.
38 IV-4/1934, #712.
39 IV-4/1934, #753.
40 IV-4/1934, #712.
41 IV-4/1936, #531.
42 IV-4/1936, #531; IV-4/1933, #749bis. On the slavery issue see Barlassina's articles in Antischiavismo (March 1933), and Borello's in Antischiavisno (May-June 1932).
43 IV-4/1933-1939, #582.
44 Confidential information by a Consolata missionary, Rome, 15 June 1989.
45 IV-4/1935, #418; IV-4/1935, #419 and 420; IV-4/1935, #515. Gimbi was abandoned by the missionaries, who went to Sudan for safety. See X-212.
46 IV-4/1935, #508.
47 IV-4/1934, #757.
48 IV-4/1935, #767a and 777.
49 IV-4/1936, #456.
50 IV-4/1937-1939, #745a.
51 IV-4/1937-1939, #745b; IV-4/1933-1939, #176.
52 IV-4/1936, #807a; IV-4/1936, #787a.
53 IV-4/1936, #19.
54 IV-4/1936, #20.
55 IV-4/1933-1939, #81; IV-4/1936, #446.
56 X/209, 2.
57 VIII-4/1936, #45.
58 IV-4/1936, #793.
59 IX/1938, #93.
60 IV-4/1937-1939, #745b.
61 IV-4/1936, #446.
62 VIII-4/1936, #63.
63 IV-4/1936, #441.
64 IV-4/1933-1939, #189.
65 IV-4/1938, #14 and 43.
66 IV-4/1936, #448; VIII-4/1936, #68 and 70; IV-4/1938, #811.
67 IV-4/198, #369; VIII-4/1938, #51.
68 IV-4/1938, #809.
69 IV-4/1938, #814a.
70 IV-4/1937, #335.
71 V-I/1939, #119 and 157; IV-4/1938, #268.
72 IV-4/1933-1937,#345.
73 IV-4/1938, #371.
74 IV-4/1939, #384.
75 VII/1708: Biography of Alfredo De Agostini, who accompanied Barlassina to Ethiopia as his private secretary.
76 VIII-4/1941, #2; X/209, #2; VII/1708 Biography De Agostini.
77 VII/1708 Biography De Agostini.
78 VIII-4/1941, #2.
79 Trevisol, Alberto, Uscirno per dissodare il campo (Turin, 1989), 31.Google Scholar
80 IV-5/1924, #1356, 1357, 1358.
81 IV-5/1912, #1442; IV-5/1917, #1502.
82 VIII-4/1915, #11 and 21.
83 VIII-4/1914, #31 and 32; IV-5/1912, #1442.
84 VIII-4/1914, #31; VIII-4/1917, #44.
85 VIII-6/1926, #1.
86 VIII-6/1908-1924, #13; VIII-6/1924, #3.
87 VIII-6/1925,#20.
88 VIII-6/1934, #3; VIII-6/1925, #29.
89 VIII-6/1925, #31 bis; VIII-6/1934, #3; VIII-6/1925. #5.
90 VIII-6/1925, #5.
91 VIII-6/1924, #18.
92 VIII-6/1925, #1; VIII-6/1924, #18.
93 VIII-6/1934, #3; VIII-6/1925, #48.
94 IV-2/1927, #192; VIII-6/1931, #9.
95 VIII-6/1930,#7and 16.
96 VII/1708 Biography De Agostini; Trevisol, , Uscirono, 667.Google Scholar
97 Confidential information by a Consolata missionary, Rome, 15 June 1989.
98 Trevisol, , Uscirono, 26, 667–68.Google Scholar
99 VII/1708 Biography De Agostini.