Posted on 03/16/2020 6:30:57 PM PDT by marshmallow
Cremona, Italy, Mar 15, 2020 / 09:58 am (CNA).- A Catholic priest has died in Italy from coronavirus, and local Italian media reported Sunday the death of several others. No priests have previously been reported dead from the global pandemic, which has struck Italy more gravely than nearly any other country in the world.
Monsignor Vincenzo Rini was a priest of the Diocese of Cremona, close to Milan, and near Italy’s epicenter of the pandemic. Rini died Saturday.
Msgr. Rini ran Cremona’s diocesan newspaper for 30 years, and was at one time the president of the Italian bishops’ news agency. He was also a novelist, and a noted literary expert, who served as the Church’s liaison to the Cristina di Savoia Cultural Congresses, which aim to promote Christian culture in Italy.
In Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian bishops’ conference, journalistic colleagues of Rini wrote that the priest “represented an open window to hope, the virtue that had always characterized his life.”
He will be buried in the chapel of the diocesan cemetery in Cremona. Bishop Antonio Napolioni of Cremona, himself recovering from coronavirus, expressed his condolences to the family and friends of the priest.
In addition to Rini, 6 priests in the Diocese of Bergamo have been reported dead of the coronavirus by Italian news site bergamonews.it. CNA has not been able independently confirm the Bergamonews report.
According to Bergamonews, Bishop Francesco Bechi told Italian journalists that in addition to six priests in his diocese who have died of the virus, 20 others have been hospitalized.
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Prayers for the families of the priests who have died and the ones who are ill.
I join on your prayers.
Lord have mercy.
Prayers up for all these men, servants of the servants of God.
I’ve stopped believing the Italians.
Do you believe the Chinese or the Iranians? I’m having my doubts about the Ontario government.
There are three 4 immune deficient populations world wide. The elderly, drug addicts, the ill and male homosexuals. I’m guessing these priests fall into at least one of these categories. Italy has a very old population, the median age is around 47.
For reference the US median age is about 10 years younger.
Leftwing areas/people hardest hit. It’s another in a long list of attempts to remove President Trump.
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