Covid kills family: parish priest, we celebrate fifth funeral

Green pass: protest in Milan with a few dozen people (ANSA)

(ANSA) – PIETRAPERZIA, 05 FEB – “It is for the fifth time that we are in this church to celebrate the funeral of members of the same family”. Thus began his homily Don Osvaldo Brugnone, the young parish priest of the mother church of Pietraperzia (Enna) who today celebrated the funeral of Concetta Mancuso, 52, and of his mother Vincenza Fontanella, 78 who died with the covid: the last two victims of a family of 6 exterminated by the virus. “We are all shocked, angry, saddened,” added the parish priest. A ceremony held in a crowded church. At the end, the niece Noemi, daughter of Maria, the other sister, who died a few days ago, read a long letter. “You have been like a mother, Aunt Concy – she said with an uncertain voice for emotion – you did not miss anything, you always pampered us. We will miss your smile. And you grandmother, protect us from up there and give us the strength to endure all this “. Then the coffins were carried on the shoulders, outside the church, and in the churchyard Don Osvaldo together with another priest, Don Giuseppe Rabita gave a final blessing to the bodies. (HANDLE).

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