Blessed Mamma Rosa

Bernardino (Angelo Matteo) Barban (1897-1980), Franciscan friar of the Venetian province of Friars Minor, Doctorate in Dogmatic and Moral Theology, is the author of this biography which has reached its seventh edition and is now available in an English translation (2006, 7th edition). For many years Professor of Theology at Vicenza, in 1943 he was nominated General Commissar of the Franciscan Third Order and from 1947 to 1951 served as Visitator General of the Franciscan Province of the Immaculate Conception (USA). At Assisi, in the province of Perugia, he founded the Franciscan 'Cenacolo' and the 'International Christological Centre'. In addition to publishing numerous historical and hagiographical studies, in 1975 he had the joy and honour of being the first witness to be examined in the diocesan process begun in Padua for the cause for the beatification of his beloved 'Mamma Rosa'.Gianluigi Pasquale holds an SThD from the 'Pontificia Università Gregoriana' in Rome and a PhD in Philosophy from Venice's 'Ca' Foscari' University. After teaching for two years at the 'Pontificia Università Gregoriana' (1999-2001), he is now Professor of Fundamental Theology at the 'Lateranense' University in Rome and the 'Studium Generale Marcianum' in Venice, as well as Dogmatic Theology at the 'Laurentianum,' the Capuchin Theological Studium in Venice, which he was also President of (2001-2010). He is a scholar of Padre Pio, whose books have been published into eighteen languages, and he has written a number of philosophical and theological books, including La teologia della storia della salvezza nel secolo XX (2002, Croatian translation 2011).With Academia Verlag he has also published Aristotle and the Principle of Non-Contradiction, 2nd ed., Academia Philosophical Studies (Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2006); The History of Salvation: For a Word of Salvation in History, Academia Philosophical Studies (Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2009) and Beyond the End of History: The Christian Consciousness in the Western World, Academia Philosophical Studies (Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2011)