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(VENTIMILIENSIS)
Located in the Province of Porto Maurizio, northernItaly. The city is situated on the Gulf of Genoa, having a small harbour at the mouth of the Roia. It contains a finecathedral with a fifth-centurybaptistery. The Church of S. Michele is erected on the foundations of apagan temple. Some antiquities are collected in the town hall. Ventimiglia is the ancient Albium Intemelium, the capital of the Intemelii, a Ligurian tribe which long resisted the Romans, but was forced in 115 B.C. to submit to Scaurus. In A.D. 69 the city was sacked by the army ofOtho andVitellius. In the Gothic wars it was besieged by theByzantines and theGoths, and suffered from the raids of Rotharis, King of the Lombards, but flourished again under King Rodoaldo. In the tenth century it was attacked by theSaracens of Frassineto.Berengarius made his son Conrad first Count of Ventimiglia. In 1139 theGenoese attacked it by land and sea and forced it to surrender; the count continued to hold the city and countship as a vassal of the victors. The city rebelled more than once against theGenoese and sided with their enemies. It was thus temporarily held by the dukes ofSavoy (1389 and 1746) and Ladislas, King ofNaples (1410). In general it shared the fortunes ofGenoa. The most ancientChristian mention of Ventimiglia is the alleged preaching of Sts. Marcelinus (Bishop of Embrn), Vincentius, and Dominus (fourth century).
It is probable that it had abishop from the fifth century; the first known is Joannes (680). Among his successors were: Cardinal Antonio Pallavicino (1484) and Alessandro Fregoso, both more distinguished as warriors than asclerics; Filippo de'Mari (1519), who restoredecclesiastical discipline; Carlo Visconti (1561), later acardinal; Carlo Grimaldo (1565), who distinguished himself at theCouncil of Trent: Girolamo Curlo (1614), who died by poison inCorsica, whither he had been sent as Commissary Apostolic: Gianfrancesco Gandoflfi (1622), who negotiated the peace between Savoy andGenoa; Antonio Maria Bacigaluppi (1773), who converted the episcopal residence into aseminary. Thediocese, which has been suffragan toGenoa since 1775, contains 65parishes, 96,000 inhabitants, 250 secular andregularpriests, 6 houses ofreligious men, 37convents ofnuns, 3educational institutions for boys, and 10 for girls. There are 4religious periodicals published in the diocese.
CAPELLETTI, Le Chiese d'Italia; ROSSI, Storia della citta di Ventimiglia (Oneglia, 1888); SAVIO, I conti di Ventimiglia (Genoa, 1894).
APA citation.Benigni, U.(1912).Diocese of Ventimiglia. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15343a.htm
MLA citation.Benigni, Umberto."Diocese of Ventimiglia."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 15.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1912.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15343a.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by Michael T. Barrett.Dedicated to the Catholics of the Diocese of Ventimiglia.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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