IN SILENTIO ET IN SPE ERIT FORTITUDO VESTRA.

VIAGGIO NELL’ESOTERISMO DELLA CHIESA CATTOLICA

This reportage was born out of my desire to make a journey to rediscover monasteries and abbeys, these places in which the purest forms of spiritual search have been handed down for centuries.

The title, which can be translated as "In Silence and Perseverance shall be your strength," takes a passage from the Book of Isaiah contained in the Bible (Isaiah 30:15) that from the outset evokes two key elements of monastic life: Silence, which accompanies every monk throughout the day, and Perseverance, a virtue more necessary than ever for monks to keep the vow they have made and continue on the path they have taken.

Between September 2022 and May 2023, I was hosted by numerous monastic communities, took part in all their daily activities, from work in the fields to study in the libraries, even being admitted to their most intimate rituals strongly imbued with symbology and deeply esoteric meanings, such as, for example, the Night Vigils, discreetly documenting realities now forgotten by contemporary man.

This work was the subject of publication by the publishing house Snap Collective Paris in November 2023 and enjoys a number of important patronages, such as that of the Archbishop of Milan H.E.R. Monsignor Mario Enrico Delpini, that of the Prefect of the Ambrosian Library Monsignor Navoni and that of the Father General of the Clerics Regular of St. Paul.