Allow me to recall that there was a time when parish priests and preachers showered me with divine graces. I had the Crucifix put back in schools, and there were so many applauses and praises that, frankly, I thought I was starting to undergo a solemn canonization. Speech in Florence, February 9, 1943. Conference in the Aula Magna of the University of Florence (My Religion) By Giovanni Gentile Source

Channel
Faith & Blackshirts
@FaithandBlackshirts
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
222subscribers
+0 since we began measuring on 11 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1002735990278 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @FaithandBlackshirts |
| Created | Between 1 June 2025 and 31 August 2025 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 11 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 19 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 19 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/FaithandBlackshirts |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Sept 2026, 08:39 | 222 | +2 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 01:19 | 220 | -1 |
| 25 Aug 2026, 19:04 | 221 | -2 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 21:23 | 223 | +1 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 03:30 | 222 | no change |
| 11 Aug 2026, 03:17 | 222 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 16 June 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 10 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
What this channel posts
- Video runtime
- 2m 13s
- Average length
- 2m 13s
Measured directly from 1 video with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Reaction mix
57 reactions across 11 posts, in 3 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 80.7% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 46 | 80.7% | |
| 🙏 | 6 | 10.5% | |
| 🔥 | 5 | 8.77% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 11 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 57 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 16 June 2026 to 10 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
GIOVANNI GENTILE EXPLAINS HE DOES NOT WANT TO HUMANIZE GOD NOR MAKE MAN A DEITY. I hope that among my listeners nobody thinks to accuse me of humanizing God, or deifying man, thereby reducing to one the two essential terms of the relationship. And even more so I hope that no one thinks of attributing to me the insane claim of man as the creator of God, as the fearful fetish worshipers often like to impute; for, unf…
José Antonio refutes Spanish antifa allegations that “[Italian] fascism is anti Catholic” “While the Lateran Treaty is being signed in Rome, we [spanish antifa] here are making allegations that Fascism is anti-Catholic; Fascism, which in Italy, after ninety years of Masonic Liberalism, has restored the Crucifix and religious instruction in the schools…” José Antonio Primo de Rivera’s “Letter to Julián Pemartín” (2…
❤5
Religion is not properly something to be added to morality; it is immanent in it and without it there could be no morality. Nor could there be any State. Giovanni Gentile, Genesis and Structure of Society P. 153
❤2
The flyer reproduced above was printed in 1926, on the occasion of the relocation of the to the Colosseum, and shows Mussolini giving the crucifix a Roman salute. The text reads: THE CROSS that past governments banned from schools and hospitals, thus depriving our children of the cult of faith and the dying of final comfort, was, at the behest of the DUCE, relocated to classrooms and the painful wards and is today tr…
❤4🙏1
Faith & Blackshirts pinned «Fr Eusebio Zappaterra one of the most openly pro-Fascist Catholic priests in the final years of Benito Mussolini’s rule. His relationship with Fascism was not merely one of sympathy; he actively participated in its military, political, and spiritual life.…»
Fr Eusebio Zappaterra one of the most openly pro-Fascist Catholic priests in the final years of Benito Mussolini’s rule. His relationship with Fascism was not merely one of sympathy; he actively participated in its military, political, and spiritual life. He served as a military chaplain and became well known for speeches encouraging soldiers and civilians to remain loyal to the RSI. To him, the struggle was not s…
🔥5
“In the Fascist way of life there is no Religion outside the Church, no Love outside the Family, no Liberty outside the State.” The Philosophy of Fascism, Chapter II, (1936), By Mario Palmieri
❤4
“The Fascist conception of life is a religious one in which man is viewed in his immanent relation to a higher law, endowed with an objective will transcending the individual and raising him to conscious membership of a spiritual society.” The Philosophy of Fascism, Chapter II, (1936), By Mario Palmieri
❤5
“And, yet, there has never been a more forceful appeal made to the best in man than the appeal made by Christianity. The idealism born of it, and constituting in a way its main characteristic feature, spoke always directly to the Soul and through the Soul. It spoke of a world of values which were not of this earth and which far transcended everything which the earth could offer. It spoke of another life, more allurin…
❤5
Mussolini made a speech that he called "reactionary, because anti-parliamentary, undemocratic, antisocialist". But we, he added, have neither set churches on fire, nor fight religion, nor ask for divorce. We see in Catholicism the tradition of Rome; in the authority sitting in the Vatican, the only universal idea that is in the world. If the Vatican renounces Rome, we will give it the means for its churches and for i…
Prayer of the Alpine (Christmas 1944) On the bare rocks On the perennial glaciers On every cliff of the Alps That Providence gave us as a cradle and created as a safe bulwark For our lands In the heat of summer Or in the cold of winter Always and everywhere Our soul Purified by dangerously accomplished duty Is turned to Thee O Lord, may you protect our far-away families and help us to be worthy of our ancestors. Sav…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @FaithandBlackshirts. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 19 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Faith & Blackshirts” (@FaithandBlackshirts), 222 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/FaithandBlackshirts.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.