The beatification Mass for Father Giuseppe Bernardi and Father Mario Ghibaudo at Our Lady of the Woods in Boves, Italy, on Oct. 16, 2022. Screenshot from Diocese of Cunio livestream.Two Catholic priests killed by Nazis while ministering to the dying amid the Boves massacre were beatified as martyrs on Sunday in northern Italy.
The young priest returned to the town to preserve the consecrated sacred Hosts, offering absolution to people he encountered. As he approached a man who had been shot in the back of the head to give him absolution “in articulo mortis,” the priest himself was shot with a machine gun. A soldier further stamped on the priest’s face with his boots and stabbed him, killing him only three months after his ordination to the priesthood.
Bernardi had preached on martyrdom as his parish celebrated the feast of St. Bartholomew: “He will die, if necessary, in the midst of excruciating torments, to proclaim to everyone from the gallows that his faith, his love for God is stronger than death.”More than 1,000 people attended the beatification Mass offered on the grounds of the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Woods in Boves, according to local media.
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