Don Roberto Malgesini assassinated in Como: “Since he was a child he wanted to be a priest”

Cosio Valtellino (Sondrio), September 16, 2020 – News of the murder of the “priest of the smallest”, Don Roberto Malgesini, 51 years old, from Como where the crime was committed by a Tunisian who the priest knew and had helped several times, it soon rebounded in Valtellina and, in particular, in the community of Regoledo from which the victim was originally. “It is always he was a very good priest – reminds Don Vito Morcelli, the parish priest from the hamlet town of the Municipality of Cosio Valtellino – and from a very young age he had expressed the desire to do good to others. He did it perfectly. And he did it, day after day, with enthusiasm. With evangelical radicalism. I wanted to be with the last. “The last are their bread,” as Pope Francis repeats. His was a great testimony. Martyr, another martyr in the Diocese of Como. “The reference is to Sister Laura Mainetti de Chiavenna.

Dad Bruno, sick, mother Ida who is suffering a lot, who does not leave her husband for a moment, the brothers Caterina, Enrico and Bruno who run the family car dealership in the town, obviously closed yesterday (“Today we closed for mourning “, the poster hanging in a window) close friends and family, but with the thought or a simple gesture of closeness also to the other inhabitants. “Don Roberto – Don Morcelli resumes – I worked non-stop day and night. He did not want, he did not pretend to have his own parish, but to be among the people who suffer, the weakest. When he returned to the town, he often took refuge in the mountains of nearby Valgerola to rest his limbs. An event of such gravity makes each one of us reflect … ”.

Harshly surprised by the news too the beloved Aunt Giuliana. “I raised him in my house, as if he were my son – says the 83-year-old woman – He and his brother Mario, after the lessons at school, came to my house, they stayed until the night. His parents worked, they couldn’t. He loved him like a son, and from a young age he used to say that he wanted to be a priest. He played in the garden with my daughter Emma., the two cousins ​​were very close, and when they found a dead bird in the green, they went up to the attic, took old clothes, wore it because he was celebrating his funeral. He was the best of all the cousins. It has done a lot of good. My sister-in-law recovers some plots in the village that they then send to him, who hands them over to the poor of Como, to the most difficult migrants. This Sunday the baptism of one of my Emma’s children is scheduled, but we already knew that he would not come to the ceremony: too busy helping the most fragile. He rarely returned to town. ” “Barely now the baptism will be celebrated on the Sunday after the tragedy that happened – adds Aunt Giuliana, near the phone to answer the many condolence calls – She has done a lot of good, now the Lord wanted him next to him “.