What a strange review L'Aquila in the evening after nearly a year ...... In the photo the Basilica of San Bernardino ....
The people were very little (many are still on the coast, some are gone and not coming back) .....
The devastated city, scaffolding on scaffolding, uninhabited. Yet the Church of the Holy Souls, the symbol of the collapse, stood open. How not to get in? The part under the dome was closed, the altar is no more. Few people and us. We four, sitting on a bench next to candles, to contemplate what is left of access. A room, but still a church. That
is the Church that the money for the First Communion of Leonardo ... That year the church was struggling to pay the bills of electricity supply. No receipt, and money saved with a donation to help the Holy Souls.
And here again there again the Holy Souls. But partly torn open. 4 And we sat there to contemplate this little grace.
Our Good Friday.
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