1 April 2022 Garand Picture of the Day

[Ovidio]

We Alpini are proud to have had Don Carlo Gnocchi as chaplain in the Tridentina Division during the Russian campaign.
His book Christ with the Alpini is something great, unsettling.
He has been beatified in 2009.
One of the most loved persons in Italy's history, I'd dare to say.
He cared. For the human being.
About the retreat in the winter 1942/43 he said: "In those fateful days I can say that I finally saw the man. The naked man; completely stripped, by the violence of events too great for him, from all restraint and convention, in total mercy of the most elementary instincts emerged from the depths of being."
Amen!