Coronavirus claims lives of 60 Catholic Priests

The deadly COVID-19 has claimed the lives of sixty (60) catholic priests in Italy which has been described as one of the world’s worst-hit nation after China.

According to news reports, the latest to have died is Giuseppe Berardelli, 72, from Casigno in Italy’s hardest-hit Lombardy region who died in a local hospital in recent days after being diagnosed with the virus.

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The Italian priest died of Coronavirus after sacrificing his respirator that his parishioners secured for him to a younger patient who had just had the virus.

Berardelli had been given a respirator – which are in desperately short supply – by parishioners concerned about his health but decided to give it to a younger patient who he didn’t know but was struggling to breathe because of the virus.

What a sacrifice!