Preti in battaglia. Vol. 1: Tra apostolato e amor di patria. I cappellani miliari decorati 1915-1916 - 9788875415174

Preti in battaglia. Vol. 1: Tra apostolato e amor di patria. I cappellani miliari decorati 1915-1916: Già nell'estate-autunno 1915 i cappellani non aspettavano solo l'arrivo dei feriti nei posti di medicazione, ma andavano a confortare e a recuperare i feriti sul campo di battaglia, avvicinandosi sempre più alla linea di fuoco, lì dove serviva il loro soccorso, l'incitamento ai barellieri, l'organizzazione dello sgombero. Molti cappellani escono di notte, o di giorno fidando dell'abito talare o della croce cucita sulla divisa, a recuperare i corpi per dare sepoltura. Ma quella dei feriti che invocano soccorso oltre i reticolati e che muoiono senza nessuno vicino è per molti sacerdoti una cosa insopportabile
In the summer-autumn 1915 chaplains not only expected the arrival of injured in dressing, but went to comfort and to retrieve the wounded on the battlefield, getting closer and closer to the line of fire, there where needed their help, incitement to stretcher bearers, organizing the evacuation. Many chaplains come out at night, or day trusting the cassock or cross stitched on the uniform, to retrieve the bodies to bury. But one of the wounded who invoke aid beyond the barbed wire and who die without anyone near you for many priests one thing unbearable. In and out of the trenches. Follow in order to assault waves queue for collecting the wounded, and save them, and assist the dying, and save them. Are young people who still have the naivety of simple people. Are there, abandoned in no man's land, thirsty, for mom. That's why the chaplains come from shelters and of its willingness to enforce a moral constraint, an ethic based on the desire not to disappoint those expecting something from you, often risking their lives just to hold the hands of the injured and reassure them. Here's that run between the blasts of grenades. No one has ordered them. Indeed their canonical place was the place of medication or the hospital from the field, far enough away and safe. Their courage is pure heroism, why not say it? Commemorate, in a centenary perhaps irretrievably failed from indifference of institutions responsible for transmission of the historical memory of a people who have little reason to pride, means