Sanctity makes us a family

An enlightening encounter: Igino Giordani and Giulio Liverani

Fr. Giancarlo Moretti presents to us one of the ceramic works produced by Fr. Giulio, to whom he was bound by a strong friendship above all due to their sharing a common ideal,  and not only because of affinities arising from their belonging to the same land of origin, the Romagna region..

We find ourselves in the Parish church of Vallo Torinese, a town at the skirts of the hills to the north of Turin where the Lanzo Valleys converge. Between the 1980s and 1990s of the last century, Fr. Giulio Liverani carried out an intense work of ceramic productions that so splendidly embellished the venue of the Community’s liturgical assemblies. In the last chapel there is a great composition entitled, “The Saints walk with us.”
On the lower right a clear and attractive figure of an old man stands out, attracting the youths behind him. The features recall those of Igino Giordani.
The first of the two youths is even hanging on to Giordani’s arm. Giordani’s face is bright and his open hands are energetic, one lying on his lap and the one on the right on the walking stick, which suggests his advanced age and at the same time, the stability he finds in the ideals he has believed in. It is the figure of one who has ended his course, and full of good works is preparing for the great encounter… Immersed in blue and their heads surrounded with gold, are the youths following, full of love and admiration for their unwavering guide.
Intertwined among themselves and with other surrounding figures, the Saints appear like an apparition. They free themselves from all formalities to enter the impetuous flow of life: besides the representation, the Artist comes into direct contact with the person, and the veiled spiritual reality in the icon.
Through his art, Don Giulio Liverani wanted to confer an eternal actuality to the values of the ideals of Igino Giordani. He saw in this great master of spirituality and humanism, the model for a breakaway work style that leads to the levelling out of the people: the stratification. 
It is a new way of viewing society and how it projects values. In heaven we will see the total fulfilment of this dream of fraternity by the great men. However, art can anticipate the viewing of such a future reality and present it as a model in our operations within the complexities of today.
The artist’s intuition generates greater works, precisely when it is received with loving patience. In music, the voice expresses more than concepts they refer to, and their pattern of meaning reaches the heart and modulates the rhythm: the work of art transcends the determination of reason and announces high images of the spiritual subconscious.
Two geniuses have met and in their own ways were two artists: an encounter that has composed heavenly music amongst men.