When we set out to write about the life and deeds of Father Cosimo Chiara, the fourth General of the Order of the Pious Schools, we once again take on a difficult task, not so much because of the particular and personal vicissitudes he experienced during his seventy-two years, but rather because of the serious matters of the Order, he had to deal with as General, both in relation to the beatification process of Calasanz and the reintegration of the Piarist Order, which he commendably resolved or tried to accomplish with the help of others during the six-year period from 1665 to 1671.
Although these problems have been dealt with by other authors, they have not yet been examined and presented with the depth and care that historians deserve.
When this biography is completed, or more precisely, when these issues are uncovered, there is reason to hope that the whole problem of the Innocentian Reduction, with all its circumstances and implications, will be presented more truthfully and clearly, and the complicated story of the final legal consolidation of the Order will at once appear fully transparent to readers and researchers. Therefore, although this life very rarely touches directly on the Calasanzian period of the Order’s history, it will nevertheless indirectly illuminate many aspects of it, when some problems that already arose in the time of Calasanz are only now finally resolved.
04. Fr. Cosimo Chiara. Patient restorer of the Order
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György Sántha
Madrid-Rome, 2024
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