New threats for Don Maurizio Patriciello, the priest who is under guard three days after a bomb was detonated outside the church in Caivano (Naples). This happened on March 12. And yesterday another episode: a sign, tied with an iron wire to the parish gates, with the words "Bla bla bla pe 'mo" ("Just chat for now"). A phrase with intimidating tones immediately reported by the don to the carabinieri. "I have never been afraid and I still have no fear - said Don Maurizio - I am a parish priest and I will continue to do so".
His only gripe? The fact that with this situation mothers "will send their children to mass much less because they are afraid, and they are also right".
The priest, symbol of the battle for the reclamation of the Terra dei Fuochi and against the "no man's land", as the area of the Green Park of Caivano is considered, has always been linked to Sardinia, where he spent his childhood. "Abbasanta is a sacred name for me - he said several times in a letter to UnioneSarda.it -. In that small town in the province of Oristano, my father had settled, first on his own, then with his family. I spent the first five years of my life. Her mother boarded the steamer that took her to Cagliari reluctantly. The nostalgia for her land and family members devoured her. In Abbasanta she found dear neighbors who loved her and her children. A those people, in the few years she had left to live, she was always grateful ".
Her house was next to that of Aunt Efisia, “an already old woman who was like a grandmother to us. I remember very well that affectionate old woman who took out some sweets from the chest to give us. Nitida retains the image of 'Zio Serafino', the husband who, upon returning from the countryside, tied the donkey to an iron ring outside the house. But, above all, I have always remembered Sandro, a blind teenager, a friend of my older brothers. I was not yet 5 years old when we left Sardinia to return to Campania ".
And Abbasanta awarded him honorary citizenship in 2018.
(Unioneonline / ss)