On Tuesday, April 23, at 6.00 pm a Mass has been celebrated in the Basilica of St. George at Velabro, on the occasion of the feast of St. George Martyr, Patron Saint of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order.


The Holy Mass has been celebrated by His Eminence Cardinal Mario Francesco Pompedda, Grand Prior of the Order and Prefect of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature.

Venice 12 April
HRH Charles of Bourbon, Duke of Calabria, visited in Venice the Institute for Maritime Studies of the Italian Military Navy

HRH Charles of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria, visited the Institute for Military Maritime Studies of the Italian Military Navy in Venice. During his visit, Commander Arturo Faraone presented a study on the Royal Navy of the Two Sicilies, in which Lamberto Randogna, the most important historian of pre-Risorgimento fleets, supported by statistics affirmed that the Fleet of the Two Sicilies was “undoubtedly the most important War Fleet of pre-unification Italian States and this due to its ancient tradition, technical and administrative organization, quantity and quality of crews, and in fact the Earl of Cavour chose its Decrees, regulations, signals and even officers’ uniforms when the Fleet of the Kingdom of Italy was established.

Commander Arturo Faraone concluded that "if Italians were curious just a little and really took the invitation to consult State Archives or some Libraries to look for the imaginary "facite ammuina"(“make noise”) (which they would never find) they could nevertheless come across the “General Decrees of the Royal Navy" printed in Naples on 1 October 1818, that, in perfect Italian – since the Italian language (and not the Neapolitan dialect) was the official language of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies – set up how the service of the Fleet of his Sicilian Majesty had to be carried out aboard or on ground, through a large range of provisions.

Cavour, who had read them and found them “very good”, understood that those had to be the regulations of the future Italian Military Navy.

Naples 3 April
Opening of the VIII Multidisciplinary University Course on development education "Diversity as Opportunity"

In the main hall of the "G.Verga" secondary school on Via Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, their RHH CHARLES AND CAMILLA of Bourbon Two Sicilies, DUKES OF CALABRIA inaugurated the eight multidisciplinary university course on development education entitled: "DIVERSITY AS OPPORTUNITY ".

The course has been promoted by the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George, “Federico II” University of Naples and UNICEF Italian Committee. The validity of an Institution is undoubtedly rooted in its history, traditions and values: however, an Institution can be credible and appalling when it shows vitality and useful activities for humanity.

Among the important initiatives sponsored by the Constantinian Order of St. George, this VIII Multidisciplinary Course of development education based on "Diversity as Opportunity”, is clearly a new and important challenge.

It is a new challenge because it is linked to the traditional public charity and humanitarian assistance, such as the construction of orphanages and family houses. This has been always part of the Order’s activities, committed to disseminate and communicate information through modern mass-media techniques and University lectures.

It is an important challenge because the support to Naples University and UNICEF ITALIA is a clear sign of the attention that the Order pays to the education of young generations. This allows a wide discussion involving the most important members of the academic and cultural world of Southern Italy, which is the core of Constantinian initiatives.

That’s why the Grand Master of the Constantinian Order of St. George, HRH Prince Ferdinand of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro, and its Grand Prefect, his son HRH Charles of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria, wanted to involve the Order in an event that can hopefully constitute the momentum for the cultural education of an ever greater number of southern students and that makes Naples a vital centre of dialogue between East and West.

All initiatives undertaken are evidence of the fact that the Order has renewed itself – although it has maintained its traditions – and has brought the noble values of its tradition into present times by adjusting and inserting them in present society.