Bernardo Verro is born 3 July 1866 and baptized the next day. He is the son of Don Gioachino Verro and Donna Giuseppa Ala. His godparents are Bernardo Mancuso and Giuseppa Sclafani, a married couple.
Bernardino is a syndicalist and politician involved in the Fasci Siciliani, a popular socialist movement, from 1891 to 1894.
Verro forms a republican-socialist circle on 7 Feb 1892 with Calogero Milone, Biagio Gennaro, Francesco Puccio, Liborio Termini, Angelo Provenzano, and Francesco Streva, called La Nuova Eta’.[1] The circle is made up of men with close Mafia connections: Milone and Streva each have at least one mafioso brother. Puccio is the compare of Mariano Colletto, a capo in the local Mafia.
To assist in a labor strike he is leading, and to protect himself from harm, Verro becomes a member of the Fratuzzi, the Mafia in Corleone. He breaks away from them in 1893 over another labor strike.
On 2 December 1896, Verro arrives in New York on the SS Oregon, where he is invited by SLP to organize Italians.[2]
In 1914, Bernardino becomes the first socialist mayor of Corleone.
He is killed by the Mafia on 3 November 1915. Although there is a trial, no one is found guilty of his murder.
Baptism of Bernardum Verro, 4 July 1866, "Italia, Palermo, Diocesi di Monreale, Registri Parrocchiali, 1531-1998," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11610-133933-47?cc=2046915 : accessed 29 September 2015), Corleone > San Martino > Battesimi 1864-1871 > image 191 of 576; Archivio di Arcidiocesi di Palermo (Palermo ArchDiocese Archives, Palermo).
Paternostro, Dino. <<Fratuzzi>>, antenati di Liggio e Riina. Accessed online at http://www.cittanuove-corleone.it/La%20Sicilia,%20I%20fratuzzi%20di%20Corleone%2008.08.04pa03.pdf 16 November 2014.
Bernardino Verro entry on Wikipedia accessed 29 September 2015.
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