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Nelson Fragelli

Nelson Fragelli was born in Brazil, in 1943, and was trained as an industrial engineer. He is an active member of the Brazilian branch of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) since 1965. As a young TFP militant he took part in several street and university campaigns in his country opposing divorce legislation (1966), the leftist infiltration in Catholic Church (1968), Liberation Theology (1982), socialist legislation establishing confiscatory land reform (years eighties and nineties). He has been a TFP representative in several European countries in the last 30 years and presently resides in Vienna. Fragelli has written countless articles on Christian tradition and art.

Lecture: The influence of art and ambiance on Christian life

Thursday, 29th of October 11.30

“God established mysterious and admirable relations between, on the one hand, certain forms, colors, sounds, perfumes, and flavors and, on the other, certain states of soul.” [Revolution and Counter-Revolution]. In other words, God established a close link between outward aspects of the material world and dispositions of the soul toward good or evil, toward truth or error, virtue or vice. The Church took this law of nature into consideration by developing architectural styles [gothic], music, liturgy in order to educate her children through the centuries. The Revolution also uses arts, fashions, architecture, mechanics, etc, in order to change mentalities. Modern architecture doesn’t pursue beauty or the sublime but mainly functionality, vulgarity and ugliness. The change of styles started with Humanism and the Renaiscence.