The First Archimandrite and Exarch of the Basilian Monastery of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata, of native of the latter town, Isidoro Croce was ordained priest on November 11, 1920 by Msgr. Isaia Papadopulos. Appointed Abbot of Grottaferrata on December 18, 1937, having already served as prior of the community, his figure marked the history of his community due to his impeccable works, along with that of the locals of the town, to whom his humanity and indomitable hope was ever present even in the worst period of the Second World War and its terrible privations.
The son of a farmer, assisting within the IX Compagnia di Sanità of the Celio Hospital in Rome during the Great War, during the first air raids of February 1944 that affected the abbey, he opened the latter's doors to the population. Debilitated by illness and nearly blind, he died on March 10, 1966 after a dedicated life of long and meticulous work.
The son of a farmer, assisting within the IX Compagnia di Sanità of the Celio Hospital in Rome during the Great War, during the first air raids of February 1944 that affected the abbey, he opened the latter's doors to the population. Debilitated by illness and nearly blind, he died on March 10, 1966 after a dedicated life of long and meticulous work.
The First Archimandrite and Exarch of the Basilian Monastery of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata, of native of the latter town, Isidoro Croce was ordained priest on November 11, 1920 by Msgr. Isaia Papadopulos. Appointed Abbot of Grottaferrata on December 18, 1937, having already served as prior of the community, his figure marked the history of his community due to his impeccable works, along with that of the locals of the town, to whom his humanity and indomitable hope was ever present even in the worst period of the Second World War and its terrible privations.
The son of a farmer, assisting within the IX Compagnia di Sanità of the Celio Hospital in Rome during the Great War, during the first air raids of February 1944 that affected the abbey, he opened the latter's doors to the population. Debilitated by illness and nearly blind, he died on March 10, 1966 after a dedicated life of long and meticulous work.
The son of a farmer, assisting within the IX Compagnia di Sanità of the Celio Hospital in Rome during the Great War, during the first air raids of February 1944 that affected the abbey, he opened the latter's doors to the population. Debilitated by illness and nearly blind, he died on March 10, 1966 after a dedicated life of long and meticulous work.
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