Prato was able to commemorate this afternoon one of his dearest sons, the champion Paolo Rossi, whose ashes entered the Cathedral inside an urn in the shape of a World Cup, to evoke the one won in 1982 by the Italian national team.
Rossi's ashes urn, who passed away on 10 December, was brought to the Cathedral by his wife Federica Cappelletti, who gave it to Bishop Giovanni Nerbini, who celebrated the commemoration.
In the cathedral there were also the two daughters of Pablito, as well as the son born from the first marriage of the champion of the Prato district of Santa Lucia.
About 200 people present in the Duomo, the maximum number allowed by the anti-contagion regulations for anti-covid protocols.
Among them also former footballers Giancarlo Antognoni and Giovanni Galli, while another hundred people from Prato gathered outside the cathedral.
"It was only right that this city greeted its best known champion, a choice that we shared with his family", said the mayor of Prato Matteo Biffoni who also said: "Prato has lost a son he loved for his grace. , his kindness, his personality ".