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The Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Agostino Vallini, presides the prayer vigil for Roma children died in a fire


 
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The Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Agostino Vallini, presides the prayer vigil for Roma children died in a fire
8 February 2011

 

It will be the Cardinal Vicar Agostino Vallini to preside over, Wednesday 9 at 5:30 pm in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere, the diocesan prayer vigil for Roma children died on the evening of Sunday, February 6 after the fire broke out in the abusive camp they were living in on the Via Appia Nuova

In the city day of mourning decided by Mayor Gianni Alemanno, the diocese of Rome meets in the mother church of the Community of Sant'Egidio, which for 43 years is committed in helping the poor and the marginalized, to pray together with the Roma and Sinti of the Capital.

Sebastian, Patrick, Raul and Fernando, the four victims of the fire, but also their families, devastated by the tragedy of Sunday. They will be at the center of the liturgy led by the Cardinal, and with them the many Roma families in the capital, to whom goes the solidarity and closeness in prayer of the whole ecclesial community of the Diocese.

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