(ANSA) – ARZACHENA, 12 JUN – Farewell to the VIP confessor. Don Raimondo Satta, parish priest of the “Stella Maris” church in Porto Cervo, an architectural jewel built in the heart of the Costa Smeralda in the late 1960s, on land donated by Prince Karim Aga Khan, passed away today at the age of 62. Don Raimondo, born in Olbia, died in Sassari, in hospital, where he had been hospitalized for some time.
He was no ordinary priest. And not because for 27 years he had been called to administer one of the less ordinary parishes of the Church. A parish that for nine months of the year remains almost anonymous, and then in the summer becomes the church of princes, stars of the show, wealthy financiers and powerful ministers from all over the world. Mission which he fulfilled without the slightest gasp or vanity. Years ago in an interview published by the newspaper “Il Giornale”, he said: “Being the parish priest of Porto Cervo is the most normal thing for me.
Porto Cervo is a place like any other, Stella Maris exists in summer and winter, which changes its face. When I give the homily on Sunday it is not a different homily from the one I give in winter, I speak the same language, only in summer there is a different audience, you have different faithful “.
But for all the faithful, famous and otherwise, Don Raimondo was a beacon. Spiritual, human, cultural. Director of the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences Sassari / Tempio-Ampurias “Euromediterraneo”, Raimondo Satta was also a writer and popularizer of faith and culture. Among the publications most dear to him is the book “Stella marìs. Icon of heaven and earth”, in which he tells the story of the small church of Porto Cervo.
A work that embodies the spirit of Don Raimondo. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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