Moments of intense emotion and disbelief in the house of Dronero’s Divine Providence. The girls: “The Pope loves us and remember us”
Dronero – “Good morning, I would like to greet Sister Vincenza”. The entirely unexpected call came to the House of Divine Providence at 5 pm on Saturday 28 December. Sister Anna Maria: “I immediately shot the call to Sister Vincenza, we were in the chapel to pray, it seemed to me that she was his brother. I did not recognize the voice of Pope Francis!”. On the other side of the thread there was he, Pope Francis, who wanted to speak with Sister Vincenza (the religious Elisa Pesenti, 90 years old), who for 66 years has been the guardian angel of the beloved “pearls”.
Sister Vincenza, still deeply excited, the next day says: “I had just returned for the Vespers by Cottolengo, where my dear Patrizia daughter missed, when Sister Anna tells me that there is a phone call for me”. On the phone: “Can I talk to Sister Vincenza, the youngest of the community?”. Sister Vincenza: “I am, I replied. But I did not understand who spoke, and then he said to me: ‘I am Pope Francis from the Vatican, I have to greet it and thank her for everything he does for the girls!’. Tapina coming from Bergamo … a beautiful city, do you know?. I trembled for the emotion and I told the Pope that I called our superior, Sister Lucia … The Holy Father said to me: “No, I want to speak with the youngest nun, Sister Vincenza!”. And I thanked for these 66 years spent with the “pearls”, and we laughed together “.
Sumor Vincenza is still: “Then he still asked me to always remember him in the prayers, to greet my sisters and the girls so much! I thanked him so much, I got excited a lot … and now I don’t remember the words that I still told him. Even now it doesn’t seem true to me! Then I went to the chapel and I told my sisters that the Pope sent his blessing on our house, asking to continue to pray for him. the time to convert me! “. The journalist Alberto Burzio, author of the new book “Men and women on the trail of God” (where there is also the touching story of Sister Vincenza), still incredulously says: “At 5.20 pm on Saturday 28 December I received a call, from private number, on the mobile phone”. This happened because Stefano Bergesio (who studied by the Jesuits) is a friend of Father Federico Lombardi, and so the Sailing House of Bergamo started two books. Father Lombardi (originally from Dronero and spokesperson for the Pope from 2006 to 2016) a volume made him reach Santa Marta, where the Pope lives.
The second phone call from the Pope
“Ready, I am Pope Francis”. And Alberto Burzio: “No, it’s not possible, it’s a joke!”. And the Pope: “I speak with” Barba Bertu “? I want to thank you for the book I have among my hands”. The journalist: “Pope Francis, I do not deserve his phone call! What honor … thank you for everything he does! I had already tried, in vain, to bring to her my book (” Between the earth and the sky “, published by Primalpe), with the invitation to read the story of Sister Vincenza and to call them … Today my dream of years is realized!”. And the Pope: “I just called it! Sister Vincenza told me they keep her in Dronero, because elsewhere they don’t want her! We joked together and I thanked her and her sisters for what they do for the disabled girls”. Burzio: “I thanked the Pope for his magnificent gesture”. And Pope Francis, again: “Please,” Barba Bertu “: remember to pray for me!”. The director of the House of Divine Providence, Sister Lucia Moretti: “In a moment of great sadness for the disappearance of our dear Patrizia, the phone call of the Holy Father makes us extremely happy: we thank our journalist friend Alberto, because what happened is truly wonderful!”.
Sincere tears
The “pearls”, who live together Sister Vincenza: “When we see the Pope’s photo, we send him many kisses! We always pray for him. And we are happy because Pope Francis loves us and remember us too”. One of them, Maurizia, is moved: and they are sincere tears those that plow her face.
