Alta Vendita
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The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita (commonly called the Alta Vendita, "high marketplace") is a document originally published in Italian in 1859, reportedly produced by the highest lodge[1] of the Italian Carbonari and written by "Piccolo Tigre" ("Little Tiger"), supposedly the pseudonym of a Jewish Freemason (according to George F. Dillon, a proponent of the theory a Masonic war against Christian civilisation).[2]
Content
The Alta Vendita were a lodge of the Carbonari,[3] who supposedly wrote the document to detail their decades-long strategy for overthrowing the Papacy.[4] The plan involved infiltrating the Catholic priesthood and hierarchy with double agents, and spreading heretical liberal ideas within it.[4] Dillon claimed the book was issued to every Carbonari lodge under the signature of "Nubius", a pseudonym of the supreme leader.[4][5]
The Carbonari had strong similarities and ties to anti-clerical Freemasonry, and the document is seen as part of an international Masonic conspiracy. The author, who wrote under the pseudonym "Piccolo Tigre" is also claimed to be the author of other 19th century Masonic documents.[6]
Outcome and Legacy
Popes Pius IX[7] and Leo XIII urged the Alta Vendita to be exposed to public scrutiny. It was first published in Jacques Crétineau-Joly's book L'Église romaine en face de la Révolution in 1859, and popularised in the English speaking world by Monsignor George F. Dillon's 1885 book War of Anti-Christ with the Church and Christian Civilization.[8]
It is widely quoted by many traditionalist Catholics as an expose of heretical subversion in the church in the 19th century, having ideas similar to those of the post-Vatican II era.[9]
Alta Vendita is mentioned in Umberto Eco's novel The Prague Cemetery, and it was analyzed in a scholarly monograph by John Vennari in the Catholic Family News.[10]
See also
- Anticlericalism and Freemasonry
- New World Order (conspiracy theory)
- War of Anti-Christ with the Church and Christian Civilization
- Nicodemite
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
References
- ↑ "At the head was the alta vendita, to which deputies were chosen from the other vendite." Catholic Encyclopedia: Carbonari
- ↑ Dillon, George F. (1885). "War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization: Lectures Delivered in Edinburgh in October 1884".
- ↑ Vennari, John (1999). The Permanent Instruction of the ALTA VENDITA - A MASONIC BLUEPRINT FOR THE SUBVERISON OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH (PDF). The Fatima Center. p. 1. ISBN 0-89555-644-8.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita". Aontau. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- ↑ "Religion - The Alta Vendita". www.brizek.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- ↑ "Heritage History | War of Anti-Christ with the Church by Rev. G. E. Dillon". www.heritage-history.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- ↑ "This little booklet reprints a collection of papers — reputedly from 1820s Alta Vendita correspondence — published by authority of Pope Pius IX (1846-1878) in 1859." Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon (2004-12-15). "Anti-masonry Frequently Asked Questions:"Q 10. Doesn't the Alta Vendita prove that Freemasonry is anti-Catholic?"". Archived from the original on 16 August 2006. Retrieved 2006-08-14.
- ↑ Republished by Denis Fahey in 1950 as Grand Orient Freemasonry Unmasked as the Secret Power Behind Communism
- ↑ "The post-Vatican II revolution bears all the hallmarks of the fulfilling of the designs of the Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita" Freemasonry and the Subversion of the Catholic Church by John Vennari (Traditionalist Catholic)
- ↑ Vennari, John (1999). The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita: A Masonic Blueprint for the Subversion of the Catholic Church. Tan Books and Publishers, Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-89555-644-8.
