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Longinus (Bible)

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Illustration from the Rabbula Gospels, AD 586: Longinus is labelled "ΛΟΓΙΝΟϹ".

Longinus is the name of the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance, who in apostolic and some modern Christian traditions is described as a convert to Christianity. His name first appeared in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus. The lance is called in Christianity the "Holy Lance" (lancea) and the story is related in the Gospel of John during the Crucifixion. This act is said to have created the last of the Five Holy Wounds of Christ.

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  • So when the centurion, who stood opposite Him, saw that He cried out like this and breathed His last, he said, "Truly this Man was the Son of God!"

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  • But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
  • There are many saints who are protectors of this or that branch of the military, but Ronconi wanted St. Longinus be named patron saint of the entire Italian Army, believing that no one was more deserving of this title than he, a Roman soldier who became a Christian and was led to sainthood on Calvary, participating in the Divine Tragedy with a mission of which he was as unaware as he was significant: to open the Heart of the Man-God to all humanity!
    • Molti i Santi e le Sante protettori e protettrici di questa o quell'Arma, ma la Ronconi desiderava che S. Longino fosse nominato Protettore di tutto l'Esercito Italiano, parendole che a nessuno spettasse questo titolo più che a lui, soldato romano, divenuto cristiano e avviato alla santità sul Calvario, partecipe della Divina Tragedia, con una missione di cui ignaro quanto significativo esecutore: aprire il Cuore dell'Uomo Dio a tutta l'umanità!
      • q:it:Lina Pennesi, Missionaria dei tempi nuovi. Guglielmina Ronconi, Tip. S. P. – C. d. V., 1950.
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