The relic of Blessed Rosario Livatino arrives in the Cathedral of Naples from Friday 1 to Monday 4 March. Celebrations and meetings on the example of the Sicilian judge assassinated by the mafia.
Example of legality, of love for justice. The testimony of Blessed Rosario Angelo Livatino is a current warning for everyone's conscience: from those who work in the service of justice, to those who do harm in our society.
In the Cathedral of Naples, from Friday 1 to Monday 4 March, arrives the relic of Blessed Livatino, the judge assassinated in 1990 by the mafia: four days of celebrations and meetings that will involve the students of the local schools, magistrates and lawyers, crime victims, prisoners, the whole community.
The celebrations will be opened by the Way of the Cross led by Cardinal Angelo Comastri, Emeritus Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica, Friday 1 March at 5:00 pm in the Duomo, in the presence of the world of the judiciary and the bar.
It will be a moment of intense prayer and strong reflection. It will be the magistrates and lawyers who will guide the 14 stations in which the last hours of Jesus' life are remembered, from the death sentence to the deposition in the tomb.
The four days will then be marked by a long program of meetings and celebrations according to the sense of the «Peregrinatio Rosarii Livatini», the journey of the blood-soaked shirt that the judge wore at the time of the murder.
The Peregrinatio will in fact stop in some symbolic places: the prison of Poggioreale and that of Nisida, the Glass House in Forcella; around the relic in the Cathedral, the relatives of crime victims and the security and rescue operators engaged in the city and regional territory will gather.
For this reason, on Saturday 2 March, in the morning and in strictly private form, the relic will visit the prisoners of the Penitentiary Institute Giuseppe Salvia and then in the Imp of Nisida. At 5:00 pm in the Cathedral, the Polis foundation will meet for a meeting on justice with the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor, Giovanni Melillo. At the end of the events, Monday 4 March, at 5:00 pm, a meeting with all the police forces and with those who are engaged in Naples in emergency and rescue. To guide the reflection, Don Gennaro Matino, General Pro-Vicar of the Diocese of Naples.
«With the arrival of the relic of Blessed Livatino Naples welcomes another message of hope and legality. In a city where war is increasingly being waged by young people against young people armed, the example of Judge Rosario - declares Don Vittorio Sommella, Parish Priest of the Cathedral of Naples - spurs us to do more, to better listen to the needs of those who make mistakes, to commit ourselves as a Church and as a civil society to rediscover the values of legality and justice». In these four days the plenary indulgence is granted in the form established by the Church.
The program, promoted and organized by the Cathedral of Naples, is sponsored by the Campania Region and the Municipality of Naples.