Alessandro: Pacem in terris

Written by Paolo Aresi
consulting by Gianni Carzaniga
actors Alessandro Conte, Alessia Vicari
Coro The Golden Guys of Paola Milzani (direction and solo voice)
Dario Faiella (solo guitar), Giovanni Colombo (keyboards)
Graphic and video project Videoval
Thanks to Pietro Roncelli
Fondazione Benedetto Ravasio Bergamo
and Emanuele Roncalli
directed by Oreste Castagna

Alexander dies by command of the Western Emperor, Maximilian: he is the first martyr from Bergamo and his sacrifice will not go to waste. The legend goes that Grata collects Alexander’s bleeding head and lilies blossom from his head, a premonition of beauty and goodness. This is way the the Christian and secular history wanted to make it overlap with the beginning of the first community in Bergamo, based on the principles of solidarity, peace and equality constituting the basics of any society, regardless of religious faith or geographical ethnic group.
Comparing these values to today’s world, we wante to make a “route of peace” that implies, as in the story of Saint Alexander, a commitment in concrete terms and built by “men of good will, believers and non-believers... because we have to look at a world without boundaries and without “blocks”, that does not belong neither to the West nor to East, where all nations, all political commumities try to dialogue, to negotiate. Looking for what joins us, leaving out what divides”.

These words were spoken sixteen centuries after the Alexander’s martyrdom by John XXIII that marked and changed the world thanks to the works of many “peace  builders”, according to a definition by Karol Wojtyla.