Bernardino Verro
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Bernardo Verro (1866 - 1915)

Bernardo (Bernardino) Verro
Born in Corleone, Palermo, Italymap
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Died at age 49 in Corleone, Palermo, Italymap
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Biography


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.

Sources

  1. Paternostro, D. (1994). L'antimafia sconosciuta Corleone 1893-1993. Palermo: La Zisa, p. 26
  2. "New York, Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924," index, FamilySearch<i> (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JX7K-RZJ : accessed 18 Sep 2012), Bernardino Verro, 02 Dec 1896; citing <i>Oregon<i>, United States National Archives, Washington, D.C. SS Oregon P65 Line 538. NARA Series M237 Roll 669 Frame 66. FHL 1027833.</li></ol>

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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Verro-62 and Verro-22 appear to represent the same person because: Clear duplicate of dates of birth and death
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