(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 3 - Judge Rosario Livatino, killed on September 21, 1990, at the age of 38, near Canicattì by Stidda, a Sicilian mafia organization, will be proclaimed blessed next Sunday, May 9, in the cathedral of Agrigento. The rite will be presided over by Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. Ladata is not accidental: in 1993, precisely on May 9, Giovanni Paolo Secondo addressed his peremptory invitation to the mafia: "Get converted! Once the judgment of God will come!". In the Vatican decree recognizing the martyrdom of the "child judge" - as Livatino was renamed after his death - it is written that the judge was considered "unapproachable", "irreducible to attempts at corruption, precisely because of his being a practicing Catholic.Livatino - who often noted on his private documents the acronym STD, SubTutela Dei - had carried out numerous investigations against common and mafia crime, and had ordered numerous seizures and confiscations. For the murder four people, handed down and executors, were sentenced to life imprisonment.
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