Paris, for Sa die sa Sardigna the tribute to Michele Obino: «One of the heroes of the Sardinian Revolution»

A preview of Sa Die de sa Sardigna, today Saturday 13 April, in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. In a "Ville Lumiere" flooded with sun, the homage to the Sardinian patriot Michele Obino, priest and jurist, born in Santu Lussurgiu, friend of Giovanni Maria Angioy, one of the protagonists of the anti-feudal uprisings at the end of the eighteenth century, who died in exile in Paris , in 1839 at the age of 76, and buried in the most visited cemetery in the world.

On his tomb, discovered a few years ago by the researcher Adriana Valenti Sabouret, a wreath of flowers and a bouquet of red tulips were placed. A simple, essential ceremony, in which a group of Sardinians and French people participated, desired by the scholar herself, by the Sardinian National Assembly (ANS) and by the Corona de Logu to remember the great Lussurgese and all the protagonists of the anti-feudal revolt that it developed on the island in the wake of the French Revolution.

The art historian Giulia Olianas, representing the Ans at the celebration, explained that «the association has started a fundraiser for the restoration of Michele Obino's funerary monument which today needs an urgent recovery intervention. We must not forget a glorious event and the exemplary stories of the Sardinian revolutionaries."