Florence City in Italy announced to name
one of its streets after the Seventh-day Adventist reformist Ellen Gould White,
according to Hope Media Italia.
The Italian
Adventist University (also called Istituto Adventista di Cultura Biblica) Villa
Aurora is located along the street to be named Ellen Gould White Street on 10th December
2021 from Viuzzo del Pergolino.
The Italian Adventist University Villa Aurora
also has been in Florence since the 1940s where it offers bachelor's and
master's degrees in theology and Italian culture and language.
Italian Adventist University is the only
buildings of Villa Aurora that overlook the street in question.
On the occasion of the naming ceremony of the street,
the Ellen G. White Study and Documentation Center will also be inaugurated on
campus at the current library, according to Hope Media Italia.
It is the Italian Adventist University that suggested
to Florence Municipality authorities to name the street on which the
university is located after Ellen G. White,
The naming reflects the Roman culture of honouring the
important people who especially died by naming places after them.
The Municipality considered reasons including the fact
that the institution was established on the property so long ago in 1947,
making the university vibrant in the city.
The authorities, according to Hope Media Italia, also
accepted to rename the street due to the social responsibility acts of the
university hosting caretakers of patients hospitalised in the nearby hospital.
There has been another street called via del
Pergolino in the city which people have been confusing with viuzzo del
Pergolino, so authorities found it worth renaming one to differentiate it from
the other.
Likewise, in 2015, the city of La Romana in the
southeast Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean Islands, named one of its
streets after Ellen G. White.
Ellen Gould Harmon White was one of the founders of
the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a reformist after the great disappointment of
1844 when the Baptist William Miller and several others expected Jesus to
return.
She wrote scores of books also called the Spirit of
Prophesy by the Adventist church including the famous Great Controversy (also
recently renamed The Great Hope) which gives a panoramic view of the battle
between good and evil for the last 2000 years.
The book details the work of reformation and Protestantism that gained momentum at the time of Martin Luther in the 1500s and the end times, relating everything to Biblical prophesies.
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