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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.

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