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Died Biagio Conte, lay missionary in defense of the poor

2023-01-12T08:20:32.525Z


He founded the Hope and Charity Mission of Palerm (ANSA) Biagio Conte, 59, a lay missionary who was the protagonist of numerous battles in defense of the poor and destitute in Palermo, where in 1993 he had founded the Hope and Charity Mission, died this morning in Palermo. He had been seriously ill for some time; the volunteers and guests of the community he had founded gathered around him until the last minute. The bishop of Palermo Corrado Lorefice is


Biagio Conte, 59, a lay missionary who was the protagonist of numerous battles in defense of the poor and destitute in Palermo, where in 1993 he had founded the Hope and Charity Mission, died this morning in Palermo.

He had been seriously ill for some time;

the volunteers and guests of the community he had founded gathered around him until the last minute.

The bishop of Palermo Corrado Lorefice is also going to the mission.



A life spent for the least that of Biagio Conte, who created nine communities in Palermo and in the province.

Son of building contractors, at the age of three he was taken to Switzerland in a boarding school of nuns, returning to Palermo at the age of 9 to then be placed in the boarding school of San Martino delle Scale for four years.

At the age of 16 he dropped out of school and started working in his family's construction company early on, but due to a deep spiritual crisis he decided to leave his family in 1983, going to live in Florence.

In May 1990 the choice to live as a hermit, retiring in the mountains of the Sicilian hinterland and subsequently making a journey entirely on foot towards the city of Assisi.

The trip was made known to the news by the appeals of the family of origin to the Rai program "Chi l'

starts walking again after an immersion in the waters of Lourdes.

In 2018, after the death of some homeless people in the streets of Palermo, in protest against poverty she decides to sleep on the street, under the arcades of the central post office building, starting a ten-day hunger strike;

later the Region financed the expansion of the structure in via Decollati.

And even in recent days, although seriously ill, Fra Biagio had once again launched appeals to the institutions to help the mission he had founded in paying the bills and expenses necessary to guarantee assistance to the needy.

A film entitled "Biagio" was also shot on the figure of the lay missionary, by the Palermo director Pasquale Scimeca.

after the death of some homeless people in the streets of Palermo, in protest against poverty he decides to sleep on the street, under the arcades of the central post office building, starting a ten-day hunger strike;

later the Region financed the expansion of the structure in via Decollati.

And even in recent days, although seriously ill, Fra Biagio had once again launched appeals to the institutions to help the mission he had founded in paying the bills and expenses necessary to guarantee assistance to the needy.

A film entitled "Biagio" was also shot on the figure of the lay missionary, by the Palermo director Pasquale Scimeca.

after the death of some homeless people in the streets of Palermo, in protest against poverty he decides to sleep on the street, under the arcades of the central post office building, starting a hunger strike that lasted ten days;

later the Region financed the expansion of the structure in via Decollati.

And even in recent days, although seriously ill, Fra Biagio had once again launched appeals to the institutions to help the mission he had founded in paying the bills and expenses necessary to guarantee assistance to the needy.

A film entitled "Biagio" was also shot on the figure of the lay missionary, by the Palermo director Pasquale Scimeca.

under the arcades of the Central Post Office building, starting a ten-day hunger strike;

later the Region financed the expansion of the structure in via Decollati.

And even in recent days, although seriously ill, Fra Biagio had once again launched appeals to the institutions to help the mission he had founded in paying the bills and expenses necessary to guarantee assistance to the needy.

A film entitled "Biagio" was also shot on the figure of the lay missionary, by the Palermo director Pasquale Scimeca.

under the arcades of the Central Post Office building, starting a ten-day hunger strike;

later the Region financed the expansion of the structure in via Decollati.

And even in recent days, although seriously ill, Fra Biagio had once again launched appeals to the institutions to help the mission he had founded in paying the bills and expenses necessary to guarantee assistance to the needy.

A film entitled "Biagio" was also shot on the figure of the lay missionary, by the Palermo director Pasquale Scimeca.

Fra Biagio had once again launched appeals to the institutions to help the mission he had founded in paying the bills and expenses necessary to guarantee assistance to the needy.

A film entitled "Biagio" was also shot on the figure of the lay missionary, by the Palermo director Pasquale Scimeca.

Fra Biagio had once again launched appeals to the institutions to help the mission he had founded in paying the bills and expenses necessary to guarantee assistance to the needy.

A film entitled "Biagio" was also shot on the figure of the lay missionary, by the Palermo director Pasquale Scimeca.

Source: ansa

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