The last farewell to Leonardo del Vecchio was held today, in his Agordo, among a crowd of friends, employees and entrepreneurs.
To celebrate the funeral the
bishop
of Belluno Feltre, Renato Marangoni, who in a passage of the homily said: "How is it possible that a seed similar to
a mustard
seed , the smallest of all seeds, sown in a field, once grown, is it bigger than the other plants? It is the parable of life - he added, addressing the late president - that you shared with us here. It is a truth of life that, with you and with the passion you poured out and given in this sowing and growth, it was possible that, from a dream and an ideal, it could become reality. Yes, and it has also become the 'parable of the glasses'! ".
"At the beginning of the sixties - said Marangoni - you were a 'mustard seed', finding an intense welcome and availability here in these high lands, in those who, day after day, have become like a big family, beyond what a great company. We will not stop telling this parable of your life - he concluded - inscribed in these valleys and in its mountains ".
Funeral of Del Vecchio
The widow to the employees: "He will always be with you"
"He would like me to say that he will always be with you, he urges you to be strong, he has left you something extraordinary that I am sure you will carry out in the best possible way": he said
Nicoletta Zampillo
, Del Vecchio's widow, speaking directly to Luxottica workers during the funeral.
Claudio Del Vecchio
, the eldest son of the owner of the eyewear shop,
also spoke directly to the workers .
"He has always considered you members of his family - he stressed -. Without your collaboration his dream would not have come true. He has taken risks that others would not have taken because he knew that you were behind him. ".
Del Vecchio, the son concluded, "he has always demanded a lot but respected everyone in the same way. He only got excited when he talked about you".
Benetton: "The future will continue with him"
"For this area it was everything and in the future it will continue with him. The day we did something important together was the graduation in Venice on the same date".
It is the memory of Leonardo Del Vecchio by
Luciano Benetton
.
With him at the funeral was his second son Alessandro, for whom Del Vecchio had "a sense of vision and the ability to look far and think for others".
"With him - he remembers - I took part in the GS Supermarket operation in which it should be remembered that the turning point and widening of the boundaries of that activity was wanted by him".
