Francesco Bonifacio - Notes

Notes

• 1. ^ Quotidiano Avvenire del 5 agosto 2008: "Trieste, beato il 4 ottobre il prete martire della foiba."
• 2. ^ According to the Peace Treaty of Paris on 10 February 1947; from 15 September 1947 the Italian territories of the former eastern provinces of Pola and Trieste were included in the Trieste Free territory, divided in two zones:

Zona A, under the administration of the Allied Military Government (AMG): Great Britain and US; Zona B, under Yugoslav administration. In 1954 the A zone was returned to Italy and the B zone was included in Yugoslavia, but until the Osimo Treaty of 1975 was ratified both zones were still nominally under the Italian state Jurisdiction; the treaty of 1975 marked the definite cession to the then Yugoslavia of the B zone, and sealed the peace treaty of Paris of 1947.

• 2 bis. ^ There is no official list of victims: any attempt to count the exact number may result incorrect. This depends on many factors. The Yugoslav Government reluctance to deliver information over the number of detained and arrested people in Istria in the period after the war. The deeply Italian disinterest, due to the political strife inside the Italian nation after the war. The difficult recovering of bodies thrown into the Foibes. An investigation performed by La Civiltà Cattolica published on 1952 gives the number of killed, Catholic Priests to 378 in Tito’s Yugoslavia . However Don Francesco Bonifacio was not listed into this numbers that excluded the residents of B zone of free Territory of Trieste. According to Father Flamio Rocchi the religious persecution in Tito’s Yugoslavia casualties amounted to: two bishops death in jail: 430 priests killed and 1.954 arrested and jailed: the figures included also the priests located into the former Italian territories ceded to Yugoslavia.
• 3. 4. ^ agenzia di stampa ZENIT of 12 February 2006: " 50 priests among the foibes victims":

^ Agenzia di stampa ZENIT dell'8 luglio 2008: "Don Francesco Bonifacio, vittima delle foibe, presto beato. Rapito dalla guardie di Tito, venne ucciso "in odio alla fede" nel 1946"

• 5. ^ Bollettino della Sala Stampa della Santa Sede del 3 luglio 2008: "Promulgazione dei decreti della Congregazione delle Cause dei Santi"
• 6. ^ Vatican Radio, 4 August 2008: "On 4 October the beatification of don Francesco Bonifacio, tortured and killed by Tito’s militiamen "