Palermo Remembers Padre Pino Puglisi, Anti-Mafia Priest Killed 33 Years Ago
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33 years after the murder of the parish priest of Brancaccio, Palermo recalls the priest who tried to steal the young people from the grip of Cosa Nuovo. Today in the Cathedral of...
Father Pino Puglisi, assassinated by Cosa Nostra on September 15, 1993, represented in life an unacceptable heresy for the Mafia order that, even in crisis, was fighting for its survival the most ruthless, clamorous and complex battle of its centuries-old history, begun with the unappellable sentence of condemnation issued by the "maxi" trial on [...] The article Blessed Pino Puglisi, please, do this miracle comes from Article21.
Palermo tightens around the memory of Fr. Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi, the parish priest of Brancaccio killed by Cosa Nostra exactly 33 years ago, on the day of his 56th birthday. First [...] The post The day of the memory of Father Pino Puglisi: 33 years after the martyrdom of Brancaccio the legacy of the priest who smiled at the killers appeared first on BlogSicily - Latest news from Sicily.
His battle was a real personal matter: he was born and raised in Brancaccio, breathing the air of a difficult neighborhood where the presence of crime became more and more pervasive and was identified by many as the only possible response to poverty
Don Pino Puglisi was murdered in Palermo on September 15, 1993. The Mafia was afraid of his extraordinary commitment and the revolutionary choice that inspired him:...
An open-faced challenge to Cosa Nostra, who killed him in front of his front door on 15 September 1993, around 20:40. That day Pino Puglisi turned 56
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