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Giuseppe Lazzati

Giuseppe Lazzati was an Italian Roman Catholic rector of the Sacred Heart college in Milan and a former parliamentarian. He was also the founder of the Secular Institute of Christ the King. Lazzati served as a professor and for a time served as a politician at the close of the Second World War despite initial hesitance in doing so. He later resigned to further dedicate himself to his lecturing while instituting the Secular Institute of Christ the King to bring together men who wished to consecrate themselves to God though not as religious. He was a collaborator of several well-known figures in Italian politics such as Giorgio La Pira and Aldo Moro while he maintained close relationships with Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II.

Life
Giuseppe Lazzati was born on 22 June 1909 in Milan in the Porta Ticinese district as the fourth of eight to Carlo Lazzati and Angela Mezzanotte. His baptism was celebrated on 25 June at the church of San Gottardo al Corso in Milan. who was serving at the time as a professor of Christian Origins. In 1979 - upon reaching the age limit - Lazzati retired from the Chair of Ancient Christian Literature and his former student Luigi Franco Pizzolato succeeded him. Lazzati dedicated his retirement to find a path out of the profound crisis of Italian politics and he attempted to do this through the relaunching of a programme of political ideals through the foundation in 1985 of the association "Città dell'uomo" which served as a revival in large part of the post-war "Civitas Humana". Lazzati died in Milan in mid-1986 at Pentecost at the Capitanio Clinic. In 1984 doctors had diagnosed him with an incurable intestinal tumor and had to operate on him to alleviate the pain. He was hospitalized during the morning of 27 March 1986 - Holy Thursday - and he received a phone call from Pope John Paul II. He was hospitalized once again two months later at the Capitanio Clinic and on 14 May his priest friend Giuseppe Grampa celebrated Mass for him at his bedside and gave him the Anointing of the Sick. His institute still exists and operates across the globe in places such as New Zealand and Uganda. Since September 1988 his remains have been housed at the San Salvatore Hermitage. ==Beatification process==
Beatification process
In 1991 the Secular Institute of Christ the King began promoting the cause for Lazzati's beatification which received archdiocesan approval before it could be considered on a formal level. Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini provided personal support to this cause. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints approved this request and on 17 June 1994 launched the cause while titling Lazzati as a Servant of God. Cardinal Martini oversaw the diocesan phase of investigation from 17 December 1994 until 14 December 1996. The cause was then transferred to Rome where the C.C.S. validated the diocesan phase on 3 October 1997 and received the official Positio from the cause's officials in 2001. Theologians met and approved the cause after scouring the contents of the Positio dossier on 7 October 2011 while the cardinal and bishop members for the C.C.S. likewise approved it on 4 June 2013. The cause culminated on 5 July 2013 when Pope Francis approved the promulgation of a decree that recognized that Lazzati had lived a life of heroic virtue which also conferred the title of Venerable upon him. The current postulator overseeing this cause is Dr. Pier Giorgio Confalonieri. ==Published works==
Published works
• ''Teofilo d'Alessandria'', Milano: Vita e pensiero, 1935. • ''L'Aristotele perduto e gli scrittori cristiani'', Milano: Vita e pensiero, 1938. • Introduzione allo studio di Clemente Alessandrino, Milano: Vita e pensiero, 1939. • Gli sviluppi della litteratura sui martiri nei primi quattro secoli, Torino: Società editrice internazionale 1956. • Il fondamento di ogni ricostruzione, Milano: Vita e pensiero, 1947. • I Laici nella Chiesa, Milano: Gioventù italiana di azione cattolica, Presidenza diocesana milanese, 1954. • Il valore letterario della esegesi ambrosiana, Milano, 1960. • Azione cattolica e azione politica, Vicenza: La Locusta, 1962. • Maturità del laicato, Brescia: La Scuola, 1962. • Lo Spirito Santo nella vita della Chiesa, Milano: Edizione Corsia dei Servi, 1964. • La scuola cattolica, Trento: Edizioni scuola cattolica diocesana, 1978. • ''Francesco d'Assisi nell'ottavo centenario della nascità'', Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 1982. • ''La città dell'uomo: costruire, da cristiani, la città dell'uomo a misura d'uomo'', Roma: AVE, 1984. • Laicità e impegno cristiano nelle realtà temporali, Roma: AVE, 1985. • Per una nuova maturità del laicato: il fedele, Roma: AVE, 1986. • Il laico, Roma: AVE, 1986. • Chiesa, laici ed impegno storico: scritti (1947-65) riediti in memoria, Milano: Vita e pensiero, 1987. • La carità, Roma: AVE, 1987. • La verità, Roma: AVE, 1987. • La prudenza, Roma: AVE, 1987. • Pensare politicamente, Da cristiani nella società e nello Stato, Roma: AVE, 1988. • La vita come vocazione, Roma: AVE, 1990. • Il Regno di Dio, Roma: AVE, 1990. • ''Il cristiano nella città dell'uomo'', Bezzecca: Citta dell'uomo Valle di Ledro, 1991. • La spiritualità laicale, Roma: AVE, 1992. • Lo Spirito Santo, Roma: AVE, 1992. • Spiritualità della professione, Roma: AVE, 1993. • La verità vi farà liberi, In Dialogo, 2006. • Chiesa, cittadinanza e laicità, In Dialogo, 2004. • ''Laici cristiani nella città dell'uomo: scritti ecclesiali e politici, 1945-1986'', Cinisello Balsamo: San Paolo, 2009. ==See also==
Secondary works
• R. Cantalamessa & L.F. Pizzolato (edd.), Paradoxos politeia: Studi patristici in onore di Giuseppe Lazzati, Milano: Vita e pensiero, 1979. • A. Oberti (ed.), Giuseppe Lazzati: vivere da laico, Edizioni AVE, Rome, 1991. • A. Oberti, Giovanni Battista Montini e Giuseppe Lazzati, Roma: AVE, 1992. • Lazzati, il lager, il regno, Roma: AVE, 1993. • Lazzati, i laici, la secolarità, Roma: AVE, 1994. • Lazzati e le ACLI, Roma: AVE, 1995. • Lazzati, Dossetti, il dossettismo, Roma: AVE, 1997. • M. Rizzi, ''Lazzati e l'Ad Diognetum'', Roma: AVE, 1999. • Il “progetto culturale” di Giuseppe Lazzati, Roma AVE 1999 • T. Turi, Laicità e laicato nel pensiero di Giuseppe Lazzati, Città del Vaticano: Pontificia Università Lateranense, 1990. • A. Oberti, ''La Città dell'uomo nel mistero di Dio: Giuseppe Lazzati'', Città del Vaticano: Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2002. • M. Malpensa & A. Parola, Lazzati. Una sentinella nella notte (1909-1986), Bologna: Il Mulino, 2005. ==External links==
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