Vincenzo Regina

Monsignor Vincenzo Regina (Alcamo, 9 May 1910 – Alcamo, 3 August 2009) was an Italian presbyter and historian.

Monsignor Vincenzo Regina was a very important figure of the clergy in Alcamo: he was ordained a priest in December 1932 when Alcamo still belonged to the Diocese of Mazara del Vallo. He always devoted himself to the believers and studies, he also taught Letters at the Gymnasium for three years and dogmatic theology in the seminary of Mazara del Vallo from 1937 until 1944.

A protagonist of the last 80 years in the history of Alcamo (as archpriest and parson for 47 years), he gave a great stimulus to the Azione Cattolica and other parish associations.

He was a consultant of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism and published several tens of books on the history, arts and representative figures of Alcamo, handing down, in this way, a patrimony of informatio very important for young people. Besides, thanks to his continual work of collecting, they could create the Sacred Art Museum in the Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption.

In 2007 he published a new book with the title "L'associazione antiracket e antiusura alcamese. Istituzione provvidenziale: an answer to the decalogue of the “perfect Mafioso”" discovered inside the den of the boss Salvatore Lo Piccolo. In 2004 he had published another book along the same lines: Arpie del racket. Vampiri dell'usura with documents on the foundation of the Associazione Antiracket e Antiusura of Alcamo.

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