THE PLAN OF "RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGIOUS CASES FOR THE REGULARS OF ONE AND THE OTHER SEX" IN PIEDMONT DURING 1815

The essay takes into consideration the first overall plan for the re-establishment of regular orders in Restoration Piedmont. In particular, this study focuses on the ecclesiastic committee wanted by Vittorio Emanuele the 1st the day after his return to Turin. As a matter of fact, the committee's task, besides recreating the dioceses and settling social and political questions originated from the Napoleonic regulations, was to arrange, in accordance with the Roman Curia and the individual orders, the return of the Regulars "abolished" - both men and women - in 1802. The article, therefore, analyses the projects that the committee has in place between 1814 and 1815, in deep agreement with the Holy See. Moreover, we take into account the pleas that some individual regulars, some monastic (and/or conventual) communities or even some town councils address to his Grace for the reopening of the religious houses.