The news comes from northern Italy, one of the regions most affected by the present pandemic. It was reported in the French-speaking world by the weekly La Vie . In Bergamo and its surroundings, we learned of the death of about twenty priests who had decided to stay with the sick at the risk of their own safety, to carry out their priesthood. Our world often only wants to see the priest through the face of the most sinister abuser. But he appears here under the sign of the martyr. As if in the face of the most terrible ordeal, some priests could only push their faith to the point of sacrifice, when all, and perhaps even believers at certain times, dread deep within themselves an entry into a freezing night and eternal. The presence of a priest at this time allows us to introduce a grain of hope, perhaps pushing man towards a last consoling prayer. In the middle of a hecatomb from which they do not escape, these priests extend the hand of
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