Edgar Aristtide Maranta – Wikipedia

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Edgar aristide Maranta Ofmcap (* 9. Januar 1897 in Poschiavo Als Aristide maranta ; † January 29, 1975 in Sursee) was a Swiss Capuchin, missionary and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Daressalam.

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Aristide Maranta was born in Poschiavo in the canton of Graubünden. In 1917 he joined the Order of the Capuchins, taking on the order name Edgar. On April 6, 1924, he was ordained a priest. In 1925 Maranta was sent to the mission to Tanganjika and by Bishop Gabriel Zelger to the vicar at the St. Josephs Cathedral in Daressalam. A little later he was supposed to take over the office of school secretary and head of the central school in Kwiro, for which he went to London for one year to acquire the patient patent. Already on March 27, 1930, Maranta was made by Pope Pius XI. At the age of 33 as the successor to the resigned Bishop Zelger, appointed Apostolic vicar of Daressalam. On August 17th of the same year, Maranta was the first titular bishop of Vinda to receive the bishop’s consecration.

As Pope Pius XII. The apostolic vicariate in 1953 raised to the archbishopric, Maranta became his first archbishop. From 1964 to 1966 he was also apostolic administrator of Zanzibar and Pemba, today’s diocese of Zanzibar. On December 19, 1968, Maranta resigned as Archbishop of Dares Salam. His successor was Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa. As early as 1964, the interior was separated as the diocese of Mahenge from Dares Salam. Edgar Maranta spent his retirement as a titular ore bishop of Castrum in San Vittore in Misox, where he supported his brother, Monsignor Reto Maranta, who acted there as a provost of the college pencil.

Maranta 1972 in San Vittore (Video)

Memorial in the St. Viktor collegiate church in Poschiavo

Under Edgar Maranta, the Capuchin mission in Tanganjika, later Tanzania, experienced an important upswing. In the early 1920s, many Capuchins were succumbed to the malaria. Maranta managed to successfully combat the disease among the missionaries through the use of quinine and the construction of healthy houses. [first] During his time as a bishop, numerous mission stations and city parishes were founded. Maranta was considered conservative. The liturgical innovations of the second Vatican Council, in which he had participated, was not easy for him, and he was also “not very weighing” democratic innovations in the church [2] been.

In his way of life, Maranta emphasized the Capuchin poverty ideal. He was also considered to be particularly practical, gladly participated in the construction of churches and schools and developed on his travels “gradually into an excellent car mechanic”. [3] In addition to his mother tongue Italian, the voice gifted Maranta also dominated Swiss German, German, French, English, Swahili and Latin. [3]

On December 27, 1962, he was recognized as the major officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. [4]

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  • Hilmar Pfenniger: Archbishop Maranta is dead . In: ite . Illustrated mission magazine of the Swiss Capuchins. Born 1975, No. 3 , 1975, S. 23–25 .
  1. ↑ Hilmar Pfenniger: Archbishop Maranta is dead . In: ite . Illustrated mission magazine of the Swiss Capuchins. Born 1975, No. 3 , 1975, S. 25 .
  2. ↑ Hilmar Pfenniger: Archbishop Maranta is dead . In: ite . Illustrated mission magazine of the Swiss Capuchins. Born 1975, No. 3 , 1975, S. 24 .
  3. ↑ a b Hilmar Pfenniger: Archbishop Maranta is dead . In: ite . Illustrated mission magazine of the Swiss Capuchins. Born 1975, No. 3 , 1975, S. 23 .
  4. ↑ Presidency of the Italian Republic: Honors order to merit of the Italian Republic. Accessed on January 9, 2020 (Italian).

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