BL. ALESSANDRO DORDI, PRIEST AND MARTYR

BL. ALESSANDRO DORDI, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 25 AUGUST

BLESSED ALESSANDRO DORDI, PRIEST AND MARTYR

Blessed Alessandro Dordi was born on January 23, 1931 and he served as a priest in his birthplace of Bergamo.

Dordi had administered to Italian immigrants in Switzerland and he served in watch factories there as a worker-priest. It was there that he became aware of the concerns of the working class and decided to place great focus on social matters.

A GREAT FOCUS ON SOCIAL MATTERS

He was also a member of the missions of Fidei Donum and travelled to Peru where he did work in the missions there.

He served in the Santa parish and was committed to the farming sector while helping them implement rural development programmes.

HE KEPT SAYING THAT HE WOULD BE THE NEXT VICTIM

At the time he learned of the fates of the two Polish Conventual Franciscan Fathers friars, Fr Tomaszek and Fr Strzalkowski, who were killed by Maoist terrorists on August 9, 1991, and with whom he was friends with, he kept telling his close collaborators that he would be the next victim of the Shining Path group; indeed, they deemed Dordi a great threat.

HE WAS AMBUSHED AND SHOT

He was returning from a chapel to baptise children and celebrate Mass when he was ambushed and shot, thus murdered on August 25, 1991.

(Information from Wikipedia - https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Dordi -📷 1. Bl. Alessandro Dordi, 2. Polish Conventual Franciscan Fathers Michal Tomaszek, top left, Zbigniew Strzalkowski and Italian Father Alessandro Dordi, are pictured during their beatification Mass at Chimbote stadium in Peru. The three priests were killed by Maoists in Peru in 1991. CNS)

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