The tribute from Nuoro for the final farewell to Patrick Zola and Ythan Romano aged 15 and 14, who died on Easter Monday due to the collapse of the roof of a ruined building on the outskirts of Nuoro, was an oceanic crowd, which came for the funeral in the parish of San Domenico Savio, which was unable to welcome the thousands of people who invaded the churchyard and the streets surrounding the church. An affectionate and intense embrace from the city and the surrounding towns to the two boys, their parents, siblings and relatives inconsolable in their grief.
The homily of the bishop, Monsignor Antonello Mura, who officiated at the mass together with the 17 parish priests of the city parishes, was touching and a sea of tears ran down the faces of Patrick and Yhtan's friends, their schoolmates, the boys from the oratory and of the Ichnos Basketball team. And upon exiting the two coffins studded with white flowers, accompanied by the relatives of the two missing teenagers, hundreds of white balloons were released into the sky. "In this Easter week of the resurrection of Christ, we find ourselves with great suffering to take note of the absence of our two boys, of their tragic unbearable death first of all for their families - said Monsignor Mura - When a son, a boy, dies, it is as if something inside each of us died. Patrick and Ythan you played as you liked to do and perhaps we got a little too distracted, not realizing the risks of the abandoned buildings and death, not God, ambushed you".
"Let's imagine the happiness of running here and there on that Easter Monday animated by curiosity and the desire to discover, until the moment in which the unforeseeable interrupted everything and broke your wings - added the bishop - We adults should be the ones to let you play and offer you security. Now yours emotions belong to us and question us. Patrick and Ythan you lived the final hour intensely, leave us your smiles full of dreams and hopes".
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