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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPriest Dies After Giving Ventilator to Younger Patient
https://www.newser.com/story/288619/priest-who-gave-ventilator-to-younger-patient-dies.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_world_img_bPriest Dies After Giving Ventilator to Younger Patient
Father Giuseppe Berardelli did not know the man he gave his ventilator to
(NEWSER) A priest infected with the coronavirus was offered a ventilator at an Italian hospital earlier this month, but declined it so that a younger patient could use it instead. That priest has now died, USA Today reports. Don Giuseppe Berardelli, 72, had been the archpriest of the small northern town of Casnigo, near Milan, since 2006. Northern Italy has struggled with a shortage of the supplies needed to treat COVID-19 patients. The BBC reports at least 50 priests have reportedly been killed in the outbreak in Italy.
"He was a priest who listened to everyone, he knew how to listen, whoever turned to him knew that he could count on his help," says the mayor of a town where Berardelli was previously a parish priest. Rev. James Martin compared Berardelli to Maximilian Kolbe, the Catholic saint who was killed during the Holocaust when he volunteered to take the place of a man condemned to die at Auschwitz. "Don Giuseppe Berardelli, patron of those who suffer from coronavirus and all who care for them, pray for us!" he tweeted. Berardelli did not know the man for whom he reportedly gave up the ventilator. (Read more coronavirus stories.)
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Priest Dies After Giving Ventilator to Younger Patient (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Mar 2020
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still_one
(92,190 posts)1. Wow, an act of kindness and sacrifice
Just_Vote_Dem
(2,808 posts)2. Now THAT is a Christian n/t
i agree
defacto7
(13,485 posts)3. Strange. If I did that no one would notice.
If the time ever came, this atheist would do the same without hesitation. I bet it has happened many times.
GeorgeGist
(25,320 posts)4. How can you know ...
that no one would notice?
defacto7
(13,485 posts)7. Because that's the way it usually works in the real world.
There are more sacrifices we never hear about than those we do.
Kaleva
(36,298 posts)5. I don't think the priest was looking for fame and glory.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)8. No, I wasn't trying to imply that.
It's more a comment on what the living idolize.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)6. Transparent, as usual