The Rev Claudio Del Monte carried the phone, given to him by staff in the Bergamo hospital, along with a small cross and some homemade sanitiser. About half the priests were retired and out of service, but others still tended to pastoral duties. His fellow priests said that in the course of his work last month, he caught the virus. He received treatment at the Humanitas Gavazzeni hospital, where Del Monte does his rounds, before dying March 23. “I used to be close to a dying person, like a doctor next to the sick,” he said.

Source: bd News24 April 12, 2020 03:56 UTC