Don Vincenzo Simeoli passed away at the age of 76: a life dedicated to others, guardian of peasant traditions, he was one of the most prolific and reliable historical minds and popularizers of the ancient history of the island
Don Vincenzo Simeoli graduated in languages at the Oriental University of Naples, started a brilliant career in the hotel tourism sector in which he worked for over twenty years holding the position of director at some prestigious accommodation facilities on the island. Parish priest in solidarity at the church of Marina Grande in Capri and chaplain at the city hospital, Don Vincenzo was forty years old when he responded to Christ's call, feeling the need to undertake the Eucharistic journey.
And on April 4, 1987, in the year in which Capri celebrated the millennium of its elevation to metropolitan dignity, Don Vincenzo was ordained a priest by the then Bishop Antonio Zama in the church of San Costanzo. Returning from his studies at the Jesuits of Posillipo and subsequently at the Orientale of Naples, Don Vincenzo thus chose the path of the priesthood. After theological studies, he held parish positions on the Sorrento peninsula where he was first assistant priest at the Santissima Trinità of Piano di Sorrento (he returned a few years later with the role of spiritual guide), parish priest at Preazzano di Vico Equense, assistant priest at Mortora and parish priest at Schiazzano di Massa Lubrense.
This was his pilgrimage before moving to Capri, his native land, in 2005. His Amalfi roots and great devotion to Saint Andrew, the patron saint of Amalfi, accompanied Don Vincenzo's journey.
In fact, the prelate has always come across, in the years in which he has carried out the role of parish guide, more than one icon that led back to the cult of Saint Andrew. In particular in the parish of Trinità a Piano where there is a canvas of the apostle from 1600 and in Capri where a statue from 1700 is kept.
Author of numerous texts and volumes, in 2018 "Don Vincenzo Simeoli published "Capri and its diocese" a great historical work where he fills a gap in Capri historiography. In the text, the result of years of research, in fact, in addition to chronologically documenting the succession of bishops in the Diocese of Capri, he documents - indirectly - the habits and behaviors of the local population over the centuries, even before the traveling writers began to do so. In the proposed documents, Sorrento and Amalfi surnames of owners of small plots of land and houses on the island appear, demonstrating the influence exerted by Amalfi and Sorrento in the medieval period. Some Amalfi families had commercial activities and properties on the island: "tantas petias de terra", as found in a document of the time.
Many of these families took root in the territory of the island and became important and wealthy families that expressed, for the most part, bishops, notaries, canons, presbyters, cantors. The documents “photograph” the changes of ownership, the emphyteusis, the testamentary bequests, the foundation of monasteries, convents and chapels; precious testimonies for the researcher who intends to study the transformations of the island.
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