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Priest dies after heroic sea rescue
The Evening Standard (UK) ^ | 7/31/03 | quovadis

Posted on 07/31/2003 3:06:13 PM PDT by quovadis?

Priest dies after heroic sea rescue By Jeremy Charles, Evening Standard 31 July 2003

A Priest who dived into a stormy sea died after helping to save seven drowning children.

Father Stefano Garzegno, 44, suffered a fatal heart attack minutes after helping drag the last child ashore at Termoli on Italy's Adriatic coast.

Strong winds had made swimming conditions dangerous.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adriaticsea; catholiclist; children; heartattack; hero; italy; martyr; priests; stefanogarzegno; termoli
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To: B Knotts
Vitriol spewed!

By the 'BRIGHTS' no doubt!

21 posted on 07/31/2003 4:49:53 PM PDT by rockfish59
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To: quovadis?
Could have used him as the new arch-bishop of Boston...
22 posted on 07/31/2003 4:52:43 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: Lady In Blue
BTTT!
23 posted on 07/31/2003 4:53:31 PM PDT by Calpernia ('Typos Amnesty Day')
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To: quovadis?
A Priest who dived into a stormy sea died after helping to save seven drowning children.

G-d's sense of irony?:
a good priest saves children from drowning at sea perishes doing his nobel deed...
while our Supreme Court makes sure a fair number of corrupt, immoral priests
are spared the proverbial millstone about the neck-and-into the sea
they deserve.
24 posted on 07/31/2003 5:04:42 PM PDT by VOA
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To: ninenot
Father Stefano Garzegno, 44, suffered a fatal heart attack minutes after helping drag the last child ashore at Termoli on Italy's Adriatic coast.

Oh my gosh!! For 15 years, I spent my summers on the beach at Termoli! Only I don't ever recall there ever being rough waters ... just the 'small brown flotsam' from the sewers.

Prayers for this very brave priest!

25 posted on 07/31/2003 5:07:55 PM PDT by NYer (Laudate Dominum)
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To: VOA
G-d's sense of irony?:

You write as though his death were a punishment, instead of a reward. He finished his work, did what the Lord wanted him to do, and he was rewarded with a glorious--and immediate, I'm sure--transfer to Heaven. How wonderful! For his sake I'm glad he's dead (in the flesh only, of course).

26 posted on 07/31/2003 5:33:23 PM PDT by Capriole (Foi vainquera)
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To: VOA
There is no greater love than to give your life for another. That's what Jesus did for us.
27 posted on 07/31/2003 5:38:47 PM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: quovadis?
bump
28 posted on 07/31/2003 5:40:09 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: quovadis?
Wow, he'll be in the express line to get into Heaven.
29 posted on 07/31/2003 5:43:51 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Calpernia; quovadis?; valleygal; Scott from the Left Coast; AppyPappy; Coleus; Boxsford; ...
"Well done, good and faithful servant; come and enter into the joy of your Master's Kingdom."
30 posted on 07/31/2003 7:26:56 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (Abortion is the Choice of Satan, a LIAR and MURDERER from the beginning.)
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To: Coleus
Amen! May God bless him and all who loved him!
31 posted on 07/31/2003 7:49:57 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: WVNan
Ping!
32 posted on 07/31/2003 8:56:33 PM PDT by Calpernia ('Typos Amnesty Day')
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To: quovadis?
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:13
33 posted on 07/31/2003 9:36:35 PM PDT by Barnacle (Navigating the treacherous waters of a liberal culture)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
This would be Gold Lifesaving Medal.
34 posted on 07/31/2003 9:39:08 PM PDT by CWOJackson (The Gift Is To Eat The Twinkie)
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To: quovadis?
I'm guessing the Lord wanted to thank him personally as soon as possible.
35 posted on 07/31/2003 9:42:00 PM PDT by Live free or die
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To: CWOJackson
My goodness - this is something. Do you know whether there is anything the UK might give him posthumously?
36 posted on 07/31/2003 9:42:32 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Green Bay Packers: "Millions Of Animals Were Harmed In The Making Of This Team Nickname.")
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To: CWOJackson
I made a mistake - it happened in Italy, it appears.
37 posted on 07/31/2003 9:43:20 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (Green Bay Packers: "Millions Of Animals Were Harmed In The Making Of This Team Nickname.")
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
Italy actually. I do have a friend in the Italian military. I'll send him an e-mail. I'm also going to pass this along to the local CG fraternal organizations.
38 posted on 07/31/2003 9:44:45 PM PDT by CWOJackson (The Gift Is To Eat The Twinkie)
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To: VOA
G-d's sense of irony?:

Who? Do you mean Gad or Gid, or Ged? You must mean or Gud. Yeah, it's Gud's sense of irony. But, it's not God's.

39 posted on 07/31/2003 9:44:52 PM PDT by Barnacle (Navigating the treacherous waters of a liberal culture)
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To: pram
Ping. Sad/Lovely/Destiny
40 posted on 07/31/2003 10:56:27 PM PDT by Calpernia ('Typos Amnesty Day')
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