Find a home in province of Naples there Our Lady of Kieva copy of the painting, which went viral on social media, taken from a photo by Andras Foldes and created by Maryna Solomennykova: it portrays a young woman breastfeeding her baby in the subway station of the Ukrainian capital.
To host the work the small church of the Sacred Heart Institute of Mugnano where a ‘good army’ of nuns, led by the Mother General of the Expiatory Victims of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, Mother Carla Di Meo, hosts in his classrooms, with the students of the neighborhood, forty children of refugees arrived here with their mothers in the town on the outskirts of Naples to escape the war.
To request the copy from the Ukrainian painter was the Greek Catholic Jesuit father Vyacheslav Okun who celebrates a mass every Sunday for the small community and who, on the occasion of the visit last week on the occasion of Holy Thursday of the archbishop of Naples Don Mimmo Battaglia , he wanted the image of the Madonna del Metro ‘.
“A modern Mary – says the young priest explaining the painting to ANSA – who, like the mother of Jesus, escaped the threat of Herod, shelters herself from the violence of war by taking care of and feeding her newborn baby”.
“War, charity and care for children in need have always inhabited these walls – said Luigi Santopaolo, promoter of the Nadiya project, a word that in Ukrainian means hope – since its foundation in the early 1900s wanted by the nun Maria Pia Brando whose The canonization process has just begun. Here, during the two world wars, mothers came from all over the region to ask the Sacred Heart of Jesus for the war to end and for their children to return home safely. he repeats and mothers and wives worried about the fate of their loved ones in Ukraine and their children who arrived here found the hospitable arms of these sisters. They are the face of the Sacred Heart and it is in their free and unconditional mission to help children that the miraculous work of Sister Maria Pia Brando “.
The Madonna of the Underground could not find a better home attached to her son like the Ukrainian mothers who wait in the school park for their children to finish their lessons. Sunday is their Easter and some of them find the ingredients, time and spirit to prepare Pascha, their traditional dessert, in the school’s kitchens. Just like you do at home.
Source: Ansa
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