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The “child judge”. French Pope authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate the decree on the martyrdom in odium fidei of Rosario Livatino, killed by the mafia ad Agrigento on September 21, 1990. The ceremony of beatification It will take place in 2021 in the Sicilian archdiocese where the judge was born and lived his entire short life, just 38 years. Livatino is the first magistrate blessed in the history of church Catholic. Determinant in the cause of beatification was the testimony of assassins of the judge, including also Gaetano Puzzangaró, one of the four murderers accused of killing the magistrate. On the eve of the decision Bergoglio however, controversies are not lacking. The community of Canicattì, birthplace of the magistrate and where he is buried along with the parents, has mobilized at all levels, from the mayor to comrades from school from the judge to ordinary citizens, to prevent his body from being translated in the cathedral of Agrigento. Addressing directly to the Cardinal Archbishop Francesco Montenegro and saying that “he was also willing to create human ropes in front of the Canicattì cemetery to prevent Rosario from being taken to Agrigento”.
Livatino was born in Canicattì on October 3, 1952, the first and only son of Vincenzo, law graduate and retired frommunicipal tax collectionand Rosalia Corbo. During his high school years he dedicated himself a lot to study and committed himself to Catholic Action, thus nurturing his own wedding ring. He graduated in Law from Palermo in 1975 with the highest score and at age 26, in the summer of 1978, he entered judicial. After the internship at the Court of Caltanissetta, on September 29, 1979, he entered the Agrigento Prosecutor’s Office as Public minister. For the deep knowledge he had of the gangster phenomenon and the ability to recreate plots, to establish important nessi Within the complex investigation machine, very delicate investigations were immediately entrusted to him. And he, indefatigable and determined, signed very important sentences that quickly made him enter the sights of our thing. On September 21, 1990, while driving down the state 640 to go to Canicattì where he lived in Agrigento Court, was hit by a commando of four hitmen and barbarously murdered. Immediately after his death, the Catholic Church recognized the heroism of the young man. servant of the state who had lived his whole short life in gospel light. For this reason, the demand for beatification which has now ended positively with the approval of Bergoglio.
Saint John Paul II He defined Livatino as a “martyr of justice and indirectly of faith.” Words that the Polish Pope said to the parents of the magistrate on May 9, 1993, shortly before addressing the mafia his historic call for conversion in the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento. For Francesco “Livatino is an example not only for the magistrates, but for all those who work in the field of law: for the coherence between their faith and their commitment to work, and for the relevance of their reflections“And he added:” When rosary beads They killed him, hardly anyone knew him. I work in cut suburban: took care of convulsions and confiscations of assets of illicit origin acquired by mafia. He did so in an impregnable way, respecting the guarantees of the accused, with great professionalism and with concrete results: that’s why the mafia decided remove it“. According to Bergoglio“ Livatino left us all a brilliant example how faith can be fully expressed in the service of the civil community and its laws; and how to obey the church It can be combined with obedience to the state, in particular with the delicate and important ministry of enforcing and Apply the law”.
The Pope, who in 2014 excommunicated the mafia, has also revealed to be very in a reflection di Livatino: “Deciding is to choose; and choosing is one of the most difficult things to which man is called. And it is precisely in this to choose to decide, decides to order, that the magistrate The believer can find a relationship with God. A direct relationship, because the creation Justice it is self-realization, it is prayer, it is surrender to God. An indirect relationship, through love of the court. Is that task The lighter, the more the magistrate warns with humility their weaknesses, more every time they return to society willing and willing to understand the man in front of them and judge him without an attitude of Supermanbut with constructive contrition ”.
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