On Friday, May 23, 2025 at 5:00 pm at the multifunctional hall of the Oratory of Sant'Antonio in Trento, in via Sant'Antonio 22, the meeting entitled "Monsignor Pietro Rensi and a town in the storm: Pedena 1943/1948" will be held, which will take its cue from the book of the same name written by Guido Rumici.

The event is promoted by the Associazione nazionale Venezia Giulia e Dalmazia-Comitato provinciale di Trento e di Udine, in collaboration with Associazione Museo storico in Trento, Parrocchia Sant'Antonio-Trento, Oratorio Sant'Antonio-Trento and Fondazione Museo storico del Trentino.  

The events of Istria and the eastern border of Italy in the Second World War and in the immediate post-war years have returned in recent years to the forefront of national public opinion.
The Istrian events in the 1940s, which changed the face of a region, were dealt with by the writer and university professor Guido Rumici who a few years ago published the book "A country in the storm : Pedena 1943-1948 : the German occupation, war and post-war in an Istrian village in memories and testimonies"

Pedena, first a small fortified village, then a Roman settlement and bishopric, today is an agricultural village along the road that connects Pisino to the eastern coast of the Istrian peninsula. After the Second World War, the establishment of Tito's new communist regime, political, economic and cultural changes led to the exodus of a large part of the population, both Italian, Croatian and Slovenian.
Monsignor Pietro Rensi, born in Besenello di Trento in 1880, served the parish of Pedena from 1927 to 1948, when he was forced to leave his parishioners, after many threats and harassment, taking refuge first in Trieste and then in Trento.
In Trento he had inherited a large plot of land that he decided to give in 1949 to the Tridentine Curia to build a church dedicated to Sant'Antonio da Padova, completed in 1957. The multifunctional hall of the Oratory of San Antonio was named after Monsignor Rensi, who died on 6 March 1967.

Giuseppe Ferrandi, director of the Fondazione Museo storico del Trentino, and Marco Rensi, member of the Udine Committee of the National Association Venezia Giulia e Dalmazia and great-grandson of Msgr. Rensi, will speak at the meeting on 23 May in Trento, which will bring these events to light. The evening will be introduced by Roberto De Bernardis, ANVGD president of Trentino and Don Severino Vareschi, parish priest of the Church of Sant'Antonio in Trento.