FORUM Magazine, Special Edition | Page 13

FUCI AND THE II VATICAN COUNCIL O Our 61st National Congress (“Tantum aurora est”. 50 years ago, 50 years later: Church, Council, Contemporaneity) was held in Urbino from Wednesday 25 to Saturday 28 of April and it was organized in collaboration with the local group. It saw the participation of more than 200 students from all over Italy. Our local groups and regional assemblies have developed thematic trails about the historical context of those years and about the significance of the Vatican Council for the Church and the society of that time. Furthermore, a lot of our university groups have studied the conciliar Constitutions and a few other official documents of the Council to let university students know them. On Wednesday afternoon, for the opening sess