2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
The coronavirus pandemic is full of stories that touch the heart. But none like that of Don Giuseppe Berardelli, a 72-year-old Italian priest who practically preferred to die to save others by giving up his ventilator for use on a young patient infected with COVID-19.
Facing a life or death dilemma, on March 15 the 72-year-old Catholic priest living in Bergamo, Italy, decided to give up his fan to save the life of a young man who, like him, needed the help of the device to breathe. His death occurred at Lovere Hospital.
According to the local newspaper Araberara, the faithful of the Berardelli parish had bought him the ventilator because he had suffered from a respiratory condition for some time. "I am deeply moved by the fact that the priest of Casnigo, Don Giuseppe Berardelli, has voluntarily renounced a fan that the community had bought for him, to give it to someone younger than him," said a nurse from the nursing home. San Giuseppe di Casnigo.
John Stone, a Jesuit priest, shared the news on Twitter and it has spread like wildfire, with hundreds of comments praising Berardelli's good deed:
Berardelli served as a priest for 47 years and is currently affiliated with the Archbishopric of Casnigo, in the Diocese of Bergamo, in northern Italy.
This region has been hit hard by the COVID-19 epidemic. The total, Italy now totals 6,820 deaths from respiratory illness. During the month of February the epidemic was such that said Latin nation became the epicenter of the contagion, replacing China, the country where the epidemiological outbreak emerged last December.
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