Solanas prays for Michela Rubiu, the Mass and the torchlight procession: the town hopes for a miracle.

Many people in the pews and standing. Everyone here, in the parish church of the Madonna della Fiducia in Solanas, praying for Michela Rubiu, the 47-year-old mother seriously injured by her husband with a gunshot to the head .

Solanas prays for her as she fights for her life in the Brotzu intensive care unit . "We want to entrust Michela to the Lord; may his will be done," says Father Diego Zanda in his homily. After Mass, a torchlight procession begins through the town streets.