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    https://www.foxnews.com/world/coronavirus-italy-priest-respirator-dies

    Self sacrifice during a pandemic.

    RIP sir.

    Italian priest dies from coronavirus after giving respirator to stranger

    A Catholic priest in Italy is being called a "Martyr of Charity" for refusing a respirator so a younger patient could use it to ward off the coronavirus.


    Don Giuseppe Berardelli, 72, died last Sunday at a hospital in Lovere after he lent medical equipment his parishioners bought for him to a stranger.


    "He is a 'Martyr of Charity,' a saint like St. Maximilian Kolbe, who in Auschwitz volunteered to take the place of a condemned man with a family, and was killed," James Martin, Jesuit Journal America editor, tweeted.

    "Don Giuseppe Berardelli, patron of those who suffer from coronavirus and all who care for them, pray for us!" he added.
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    @whodey said
    https://www.foxnews.com/world/coronavirus-italy-priest-respirator-dies

    Self sacrifice during a pandemic.

    RIP sir.

    Italian priest dies from coronavirus after giving respirator to stranger

    A Catholic priest in Italy is being called a "Martyr of Charity" for refusing a respirator so a younger patient could use it to ward off the coronavirus.


    Don Giuseppe Berarde ...[text shortened]... elli, patron of those who suffer from coronavirus and all who care for them, pray for us!" he added.
    It’s going to be life a “jackets and lifeboats on the titanic” scenario once the infected numbers kick off in the US.
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    @whodey said
    https://www.foxnews.com/world/coronavirus-italy-priest-respirator-dies

    Self sacrifice during a pandemic.

    RIP sir.

    Italian priest dies from coronavirus after giving respirator to stranger

    A Catholic priest in Italy is being called a "Martyr of Charity" for refusing a respirator so a younger patient could use it to ward off the coronavirus.


    Don Giuseppe Berarde ...[text shortened]... elli, patron of those who suffer from coronavirus and all who care for them, pray for us!" he added.
    I'm not Catholic, but I would be all for this man's sanctification.

    This is what it means to love your neighbor as you love yourself.
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    @suzianne said
    I'm not Catholic, but I would be all for this man's sanctification.

    This is what it means to love your neighbor as you love yourself.
    the problem with this is that sacrifices like this were probably numerous but because he was a priest he gets sanctified
    religion sucks
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    @lemondrop said
    the problem with this is that sacrifices like this were probably numerous but because he was a priest he gets sanctified
    religion sucks
    the myriad stories of the sacrifices that moms make for their kids will rarely make the news cycle
    only if the person/s involved have social status
    parts of humanity are yin
    parts of humanity are yang
    none of us is all or neither
    all of us are both
    this one selfless act is beautiful
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    @rookie54 said
    the myriad stories of the sacrifices that moms make for their kids will rarely make the news cycle
    only if the person/s involved have social status
    parts of humanity are yin
    parts of humanity are yang
    none of us is all or neither
    all of us are both
    this one selfless act is beautiful
    Amen.
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    @rookie54 said
    the myriad stories of the sacrifices that moms make for their kids will rarely make the news cycle
    only if the person/s involved have social status
    parts of humanity are yin
    parts of humanity are yang
    none of us is all or neither
    all of us are both
    this one selfless act is beautiful
    And had this not been a priest, this would not have made the news cycle either.

    The press does suck.
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    @lemondrop said
    the problem with this is that sacrifices like this were probably numerous but because he was a priest he gets sanctified
    religion sucks
    You could look at it that way. I choose to be glad that a good act is recognized. I see in that act a mirror that reflects the best part of human empathy and compassion.
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    @bigdoggproblem said
    You could look at it that way. I choose to be glad that a good act is recognized. I see in that act a mirror that reflects the best part of human empathy and compassion.
    Na, I prefer the 24/7 news coverage of Covid, Global warming, and Orange man is bad as both are his fault.
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    @whodey said
    Na, I prefer the 24/7 news coverage of Covid, Global warming, and Orange man is bad as both are his fault.
    You are a one-track wet blanket.
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