He would have turned 66 on January 10th. But Pietro passed away first. He died this morning, in Bari, from an illness, alone, without the possibility of asking for help. He had just had time to receive his gift, a gift from a stranger, on Christmas evening, through the Incontra association. They are the volunteers who found him lifeless at lunchtime. ««Our street unit», they say, «like every day, and like every Christmas Eve, went last night, December 24th, to give him his gift, the Christmas box in which the whole city participates. The sharing of a dessert, of a thought, the change of blankets, a quick cleaning of the place, a moment of prayer and the delivery of his gift, of his gift which he cared about above all for the letter and the kind thought dedicated to him by the anonymous donor”. He loved reading Pietro. And for this reason the volunteers imagine him «this morning Pietro intent on reading the letter dedicated to him before setting off through the streets of his city». He read novels, stories, poems.
And precisely with a poem, which he loved so much, the association remembers him: «Sacred», Peter read, «is feeling so rich that you can ask God if he needs something».
