Priest dies after heroic sea rescue

The Evening Standard (UK) ^ | 7/31/03 | quovadis

[rockfish59]

Vitriol spewed!

By the 'BRIGHTS' no doubt!

[pabianice]

Could have used him as the new arch-bishop of Boston...

[Calpernia]

BTTT!

[VOA]

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.

[NYer]

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!

[Capriole]

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).

[Ann Archy]

There is no greater love than to give your life for another. That's what Jesus did for us.

[Tribune7]

bump

[LibWhacker]

Wow, he'll be in the express line to get into Heaven.

[cpforlife.org]

"Well done, good and faithful servant; come and enter into the joy of your Master's Kingdom."

[Alamo-Girl]

Amen! May God bless him and all who loved him!

[Calpernia]

Ping!

[Barnacle]

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:13

[CWOJackson]

This would be Gold Lifesaving Medal.

[Live free or die]

I'm guessing the Lord wanted to thank him personally as soon as possible.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

My goodness - this is something. Do you know whether there is anything the UK might give him posthumously?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I made a mistake - it happened in Italy, it appears.

[CWOJackson]

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.

[Barnacle]

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.

[Calpernia]

Ping. Sad/Lovely/Destiny