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January 21, 1927

Sull 'Osservatore Romano appeared two interesting articles on the figure of the Roman virgin "apostle and Christian education.

L'Osservatore Romano on Friday 21 January, just three days before his death, he published the first article which will appear in its entirety and that emphasizes the heroic love of the servant of God to all the miseries of others.

IN DEATH OF GIUSEPPINA Berettoni

morning in the parish church of Saints Peter and Marcellinus on the Via Merulana were, with a frequency of devoted public, celebrated the funeral of Miss Josephine Berettoni, deceased suddenly Monday at the Basilica of St. Maria Maggiore.

The death of this chosen and privileged in the eyes of the creature hidden world, marks the death of one of those figures of Roman virgins, heirs of the spirit and continuity of operations of the famous heroines who has the Church of Rome . Born August 6, 1875 in the same parish of St. Maria Maggiore, in the fifty years she lived in the middle of the century with spotless purity and fervent piety cloistered, the Berettoni was constantly weaving a wondrous canvas of the most exquisite works of Christian charity. The minister of the school, who exercised up to last Saturday in Ponte Mammolo, where not much was changed from Magliana, for Josephine was an exercise of the highest charity PEL received most valuable gift from heaven to be able to gently ask the good spirits of the children. In his training small growing good and pious, and indeed not a few under the guidance of her mother with the rudiments of culture learned to open the soul to tender one great idea of \u200b\u200bpriestly life, and even touch the front of adolescence, made as soon as the elementary grades, passing or preparatory schools or seminaries of religious orders to become a day zealous priests of Jesus Christ.

In his spare time from teaching, so during the day as at night, all the effondevasi pia donna nella cura del prossimo, o procurando aiuto ai poveri con mille industrie sempre discrete e prudenti, o assistendo gli infermi più abbandonati. Per molti di questi ultimi fu essa l'angelo benigno che spezzò loro le catene del peccato e le schiuse le porte del paradiso.

Tutto poi ella sapeva compiere con amabile disinvoltura, giocondissimo brio, attraente modestia e prudenza più che virile, a niente altro mirando che ad amare più ferventemente Gesù e a farlo amare dagli altri. E Gesù, mistico sposo dell’elettissima vergine, le concesse appunto, come tanto la Giuseppina aveva bramato, di morire sul campo del lavoro non solo, ma proprio nell’augusto tempio romano dedicato alla gran Madre di Dio, ai piedi di quel medesimo altare dove pochi istanti prima erasi sacramentalmente congiunto con la sua diletta, che non conobbe altro amore che Lui, che altra brama non ebbe se non quella di goderlo svelatamente nel cielo.


24 gennaio 1927

Lo stesso quotidiano nell'ottavario della morte di Giuseppina, il 24 gennaio 1927, scrisse:

Un Ufficio Funebre alla Magliana

per Giuseppina Berettoni

Se tutti hanno avuto una parola di cordoglio e di dolore per la fulminea e immatura morte, the more they feel a duty to put the parish women's Magliana, of which she was founder and director for seven years, as all the inhabitants of this township, where for twelve years she has made all the treasures of his goodness and his maternal heart.

and examples of these feelings of gratitude this morning, Octave of death, was celebrated a solemn funeral, attended by almost full to the registered associations, providing the S. Communion for the unforgettable woman.

still many faithful
go to the tomb of Joseph