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Voice of the country from over 100 years

3 April 1897. In Susa's valley a new newspaper is published, his name is “Il Rocciamelone”, to make an offer to the very dear  mountain to Susa valley's hinabitants. The founder is the bishop monsignor Edoardo  Giuseppe Rosaz (proclaimated blessed from pope Giovanni PaoloII the 14 July of the year 1991, in occasion of the visit to Susa) that on the first number greets the first pubblication with those words: “I bless the catholic newspaper “Il Rocciamelone” and all his editional staff's members, giving the brave to go on with the holy idea”. And now some extracts from the first articol: “Next to spirituals and religious interests, we are going to support thanks to God civil interests of Susa's valley people (...) Our columns are at the disposition of  local correspondents; at purpose of political situation, of most important things, news are going  to be promulgated in large part; civil chronicle, neighbourhood's news , and judicial survey, are going to be considered very important; people thanks to the newspaper are going to new and better understand statistics, industrial and agriculture progresses; We won't neglect beautiful examples of litherature and cultural things that recreate soul; We won't neglect anything, to offer a useful newspaper, funny to everyone and everywhere. More of 100 years of life for a newspaper are really very much. A holy project but also very binding. Powers are always been unequal in connection to the project, shareholders had always few money in the poket; layers were very strickt but it has been a greate adventure that connects local church history  to his country and further. At the beginning, so, it was “Il Rocciamelone”, like the mountain that dominates the valley and on his summit (at 3538 meters) the blessed Rosaz wanted to place in 1899 a Virgin Mary bronze  statue. They were the newspaper “founders fathers'” years: the holy bishop monsignor Rosaz; the joung layer Cesare Napoli, the first almost improvised director Giuseppe Calabrese, that will be in the future bishop of Aosta, thrue “soul” of the newspaper, but always in second row. The bishop house became editing and printing shop. In that period 500 copies were printed and  information market was dominated from the “Indipendente”.  Anticlericalism blinded also intelligences and the “clericali” (as they were called) had to toil a lot  to find “a place in the sun”. But those fathers fibre was very strong. In 1907, after two years of pubblications suspension, “Il Rocciamelone” changed name and became “La Valsusa”. We are in the greate journalist Luigi Chiesa's years. “La Valsusa fight without fear political catholic “battle”. Thanks to Luigi Chiesa  the extraordinary  figure of a joung teacher that will arrive in the parliament of Rome: Federico Marconcini made himself conspicuous. Those are also the years in which Giacomo Alberione started the future “ Holy Paolo daughters” here in Susa. It's the 1919, after the greate war years  the bishop monsignor Marozio started his work to recreate the diocesan weekly paper. To do that, he contacted Don Alberione who sent to Susa 14 girls who attended  all the newspaper works: editing, corrections, proofs, printing and they did also newspaper sellers job. The jounger of them went along Susa's streets to annonce that the new newspaper was at the disposition of readers. It almost seems a story, but those are pages of history. Overrunning the annals we can't forget an extraordinary director figure monsignor Carlo Marra, who passerd all his life in the newspaper (in 1912 he was only 12 when he went to the printing office to stick labels), going throug the Fascism, the war, the liberation, the postwar period, the economical boom, the council. A direction of 40 years, till the 3 January of the year 1975, when Don Aldo Amprimo, brilliant student became director. His “sale e pepe” and his “schegge” belong to the most pugnacious ( and better written) years of the newspaper. With him, we have to remember two others extraordinary “pens”: the canonical Domenico Sardi and the canonical Guido Ferrero, inventor of the newspaper's sport page. Other change in 1979, when Don Ettore De Faveri became the new director. In few years corrispondents number increases, as the news, pages and subscribers. “When I became this newspaper director I didn't think to guide this project till the new century- says Don Ettore–  This thought fascinates me but gives me also trills on my back. Today the deed is harder than before. I ask me always in the coscience exam that a director does at the end of a long work day: What do you want us to do, God? Is there still room for us? Is David's sling still enough in this artificial information world? I don't claim that God answers me, but I hope that He gives me a bit of light, be cause I go on thinking that the good newspaper secret is always that of telling the news”. In a world, as Piero Ottone writes: Nobody decides to work as journalist to improve the world, but a good newspaper does that”. This is what we, in little try to do.

Si ringrazia Krizia Bonaudo per la traduzione