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145<br />
53 rd Lodge to receive this gavel<br />
Lodge Tommaso Brigandi” # 993<br />
Or. Di Gallipoli<br />
Under the Grande Oriente di’ Italia<br />
March 2006<br />
A. D. G. A. D. U.<br />
MASSONERIA UNIVERSALE<br />
COMUNIONE ITALIANA<br />
GRANDE ORIENTE D’ITALIA<br />
PALAZZO GIUSTINIANI<br />
00152 ROMA – Via di San Pancrazio, 8<br />
Tel: (06) 58.99.344/5 - Fax: (06) 58.18.096<br />
20 th January 2007<br />
The Gavel was delivered by Bro. Theodor Panagos,<br />
to Bro. Ennino Manzo to Lodge Tommasso<br />
Brigande #993 Or. of Gallipoli, under the Grande<br />
Oriente di’ Italy, March 2006<br />
I have had the honour to receive the Travelling<br />
Gavel from the Most Respectable Brother Aethos<br />
Tzifakis, on Summer Solstice Day, last year.<br />
In Italy, the tradition is that the Lodge interrupts<br />
the works in the period that goes from the summer<br />
solstice to the following autumnal equinox.<br />
Furthermore, the contingencies of my Lodge,<br />
consisting in the actual construction of the<br />
Masonic House and of the Temple in Gallipoli,<br />
have delayed the ceremony of presentation of the<br />
Travelling Gavel until next winter solstice.<br />
Last 13 th January the consecration of the Temple<br />
and the opening ceremony of Masonic House in<br />
Gallipoli have been celebrated. Immediately after,<br />
a date for a ritual presentation of the Travelling<br />
Gavel in the Lodge has been fixed.<br />
I apologize for the delay and it will be my care to<br />
inform you on the decisions that will be assumed in the near future.<br />
The official ceremony of the 13 th January has also regarded the 140 th anniversary of the foundation of our Lodge<br />
on initiative of local Patriots. During the fascist period the Masonic House was demolished because of precise<br />
governmental dispositions of the period. In October 1976 it was re-founded by some Freemasons of the Lodge<br />
placed in Lecce. The only survivor of such Founders is the Writer of this letter who, after covering in the course<br />
of the years all the Lodge Charges including that of Worshipful Master for two times, is today, between the<br />
Columns, the Lodge Doyen.<br />
Over the past years, the Lodge has had an average number of 25 Brothers. The Brothers use to meet every<br />
Thursday, with agendas focused on themes like Hermetism, Symbology, and Alchemy besides social and<br />
philanthropic topics.<br />
The Masters Brothers of the Lodge conform to the York Rite and in the same Temple ritual gatherings of the<br />
Masters of Royal Arc, of the Commenda of Templar Knights and of the Masonic Cryptic Council take place.