Eugenio Corecco
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Biography
Son of Peter, born in Bodio and Margaret Beffa of Airolo, he was ordained priest on October 2 1955, studied in Rome, at the Pontifical Gregorian University to Monaco of Bavaria, where he received his PhD in canon law and Freiburg, where in 1969 was appointed professor of canon law.
Active in the pastoral, from the years 1960-70 he worked in Switzerland for the spread of the ecclesial movement of Communion and Liberation. The Pope John Paul II on June 5 1986 made him Bishop of Diocese of Lugano and was consecrated in the cathedral of San Lorenzo on June 29 bishop Henri Schwery, bishop of the diocese of Sion, concelebrating bishops Pierre Mamie and Ernesto Togni.
The April 29 1992 founded in Lugano the Institute Academic theology that in the following year, precisely on November 20 1993, was raised by the Holy See in university faculty of theology - Faculty of Theology of Lugano (FTL), giving an opportunity to build the city of Lugano, USI (University of Italian Switzerland ), of which, however, the FTL not joined, remaining a completely autonomous.
He died on March 1 1995 as a result of a rare form cancer, was buried in the crypt of Church of the Sacred heart in Lugano.
Thought
"Whatever should be the nature of the industry and its interventions in the social field, Caritas is called, with ever greater urgency, to express in society two specific values of Christianity, whose social significance can not be measured purely rational. The first is the gratuity to the man in trouble, because it was free also the redemption offered to us by Christ. The second is to oversupply, excess is the love of Christ for us. The charity has so far as the needs of others, but the richness of God's love limiting it to look and evaluate it from man's need, because man is more than its needs". [1]