It was the morning of September 22, 1952 when Carbonia , born just 14 years old but already very attached to her first priest who shared daily struggles and hardships, between poverty and death in the mine, woke up with the news that Don Vito Sguotti is not there. it was more.

In fact, today falls the 70th anniversary of the death of perhaps the most beloved parish priest in the history of the mining town. He rests in a chapel in the left aisle of the church of San Ponziano (where the first mass in suffrage was celebrated today at 7.30 and the second will be at 19). The coffin is surmounted by a painting by Ielmo Cara which shows many epic moments of Don Vito's daily life.

Chaplain curate of the Vatican Onarmo, Don Vito Sguotti arrived in Carbonia in 1937 , then was recalled to Rome the following year and returned to Carbonia in 1945 dividing himself in the fight against poverty. His funeral procession to the cemetery was accompanied by a crowd of 20,000 people. Since the burial became a daily pilgrimage destination, the ecclesiastical authorities decided to transfer the remains to the church of San Ponziano. Operation that took place in 1965: for the transfer operations the coffin was opened and an event considered amazing occurred, according to the chronicles of the time that the conditions of the body were identical to those of thirteen years earlier, the body was intact and intact.

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