LONGO, BARTOLO. - Lawyer, founder of the sanctuary of Pompei, b. at Latiano (Brindisi) on 10 Feb. 1841, d. at Pompei on 5 Oct. 1926. Shaken in his faith, and brought back to it by dear friends, he left the forensic career he had brilliantly begun, in order to devote himself solely to works of religion and charity.
In 1885 he married the widow Countess Marianna de Fusco, when already since 1872 he had promoted in Pompei, then almost abandoned, the teaching of the catechism and devotion to the Rosary, erecting there the confraternity in 1876. On 8 May of the same year he began, with the offerings of the faithful, the temple, now of world renown, around which there sprouted over the years splendid works of charity and redemption: nurseries, recreation centers, workshops, schools, a printing press and workshops, the girls' orphanage for in psychic reactions; the intelligence is good, of an intuitive, synthetic, fanciful type, with a schizoid orientation. In particular, in the hypertrophic and hypersuprarenal variety, individuals are emotional and irritable; in the hypergenital and hyperpituitary (hyperhypophyseal) one, more capable of control and reflection; in hyperthyroids, in the best cases intelligence, in hyperhypophyseals the memory is robust.
In the hyposthenic-hypotonic l. biotype, the disharmonious development in length of the trunk and particularly of the limbs gives the individual a frail, hypotonic, drooping appearance, with evident curves and humps (kyphosis and lordosis) of the spinal column, particularly of the cervico-dorsal and dorso-lumbar regions; the muscles are frail and hypotonic, the fat scanty; the sexual characters little developed. On the endocrine side, hyperthyroidism with hypogenitalism, hyposuprarenalism, hypoparathyroidism with spasmophilia; the hyposuprarenal variety is particularly predisposed to tuberculosis. On the psychic side, not tachypragic and tachypsychic; the mood is sentimental and depressed; the intelligence often quite good, at times brilliant, but rapidly exhaustible, of a fanciful type, neither concrete nor practical.
the abandoned women, the hospices for the sons and daughters of prisoners, especially for the daughters of condemned mothers. All these works later passed under the direct governance of the Holy See. To him is due the institution of the sisters "Daughters of the Most Holy Rosary of Pompei". He collaborated in arousing throughout the world the Assumptionist movement, and spread the devotion of the 15 Saturdays, the novena and the supplication, dictated by himself. His cause of beatification has been introduced.
He integrated his apostolate with various publications of a popular nature, among them a Storia del santuario (Pompei 1890) left unfinished; but more important for the evaluation of his pedagogical method are: Per l'educazione morale e civile dei figli dei carcerati (ivi 1894); Quaranta figli di carcerati (ivi 1895); L'opera di Pompei e la riforma morale dei carcerati (ivi 1895); Memorie per il Congresso di Bruxelles (ivi 1899); Nuova memoria (ivi 1899); La guida del carcerato alla sua morale riabilitazione (ivi 1905); L'ultimo voto del mio cuore (ivi 1925).
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