Misericordes sicut Pater. Mons. Giuseppe Ruotolo e il Villaggio del Fanciullo a S. Maria di Leuca negli anni '50-'60 del Novecento.

In the first post-war period mons. Ruotolo, Ugento-S. Maria of Leuca diocese's bishop from 1938 to 1968, through the collaboration of Unrra, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, of South-Italy Standing Committee, of Poa (Welfare Papal Organization) and supported by political and religious personages, for instance Don Luigi Sturzo, plans and realizes the Child Village. The Child Village, erected beside S. Maria of Leuca Sanctuary and inaugurated on 27 September 1953, opened until '70, is a didactic institute that looks at the education and the vocational training of needy and often without family children, in these ranks owing to the war and, afterward, to the strong emigration; then it will receive also "problematical" kids. Mons. Ruotolo is pushed to its foundation by post-war period Cape of Leuca children poor life conditions, which couldn't leave his merciful Shepherd heart indifferent. In the realization of his project, he is inspired by Christian social pedagogy, incarnated by s. Giovanni Bosco "preventive method".

战后初期，1938年至1968年担任乌真托-莱乌卡圣玛丽亚教区主教的蒙席鲁奥托洛（mons. Ruotolo），依托联合国善后救济总署（United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration）、意大利南部常设委员会与教皇福利组织（Poa）的协作，并获得路易吉·斯图佐神父（Don Luigi Sturzo）等政要与宗教人士的支持，规划并筹建了儿童村（Child Village）。这座紧邻莱乌卡圣玛丽亚圣殿（S. Maria of Leuca Sanctuary）的儿童村于1953年9月27日落成启用，运营至20世纪70年代，是一所面向因战争及后续大规模移民而陷入困顿、大多无家可归的贫困儿童开展教育与职业培训的教学机构，后续亦接收“问题少年”。蒙席鲁奥托洛推动筹建该儿童村，源于战后莱乌卡地区儿童恶劣的生存境遇，这一切无法让这位慈悲的牧者无动于衷。在项目推进过程中，他的理念灵感源自以圣若望·鲍思高（San Giovanni Bosco）“预防式教育法”所具象化的基督教社会教育学。