branded as "bandits" and "fanatics" or even forgotten. The insurgents, demagogues that in Italy the pre-unification sought to oppose the invasion of Napoleon and his sights anti-Catholic, the official history never existed. But in recent years the search is finally discovering the role of characters such as Christmas or Branda Lucioni Barbieri in Pavia in Piedmont, who faced the revolutionary armed to defend the right to live their faith.
One of them, until now completely ignored by the manuals school is finally a recognition beyond the borders of the Tyrol to its 200 years since it was shot at Mantua by order of Napoleon, as he held in his hands the crucifix adorned with a bouquet of flowers: "I stand before Him who created me - confessed in front of the peloton - and I want to give up my soul. " His name was Andreas Hofer, came from a village in Passeiertal, died Feb. 20, 1810 just 42 years.
It was a professional soldier, but a humble host device valley north of Merano, which for over a decade had led the Tyrolean troops to leave his beloved Franco-Bavarian Tyrol, Austria passed to Bavaria after the third war coalition. "The Tyrolean, which in 1809 took up arms against the Emperor Bonaparte fought, suffered and died not for a vague ideal, but to defend something very concrete, starting with religious freedom, that the very possibility of access to the sacraments, to have for themselves and their children Christian instruction, to transmit and communicate freely with the faith itself. " [read more]
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