For several months now Magdalene Sistersbecome an integral part of the community and a point of reference in the Municipality of They livedhave received a notice of eviction from the convent in which they have spent the last few years, from the Mother General Sister Franca Barbieri.
The Mother General’s choice destabilizes the community
The news of the transfer shook the whole world community of Vigevanoincluding the First Citizen Andrea Ceffawho tried several times to reverse the situation by asking Sister Franca in a firm tone to rework her proposal.
The main reason for the transfer is linked to the age of the Magdalene Sisters who, now in their 90s, require specific care. Mayor Andrea Ceffa However, he stated that the Municipality can continue to offer the necessary care to the Magdalene Sisters, as it has always done:
“They lived it is the 12th city in Lombardy, it is not a remote village. The care they can receive in Piacenza can also be received here. They are already of a certain age and they have always been cared for without problems.”
The answer, however, is the Mother General he stated that the choice, although difficult, will not be canceled even in the face of countless requests from citizens, who continue to sign the petition launched by Vigevano Prima di Tutto. Here is the link to sign the petition, designed to stop the transfer of the Sisters.
The Congregation he can no longer bear it that community. With advanced age we no longer feel like leaving the Sisters away from other communities where they could be cared for differently.
The first layoffs for employees are arriving
The Convent which has always hosted citizens in difficulty within its walls, and is also ready to help young teachers away from home, with this choice sees over 150 years of history crumble. Therefore, those who will pay for this decision will not only be the Magdalene Sisters, who have always clearly expressed their desire to stay, but also all the citizens and obviously the employees who work there.they worked inside the convent.
In fact, there are two dismissal letters addressed to the employees of the Convent, who have communicated the termination of the employment relationship via a handwritten note directly from the Mother General. They are Flora, a cook of Albanian origins who has worked alongside her Sisters for more than 30 years, and Anita, who helps her in Corso Genova 5 for over a decade.
The words of Flora and Anita
Both, shocked and saddened, expressed their pain to Life Live broadcast on Rai Uno, where they explained that for them the transfer of the Sisters does not only represent the loss of a stable job, but rather of a family created over the years spent alongside the Sisters.
“Because this is a family, our family– they say – Whenever our sisters are in need, we are there, twenty-four hours a day, Saturday, Sunday. We do not care. We are always there for them, our life is here.This is our home, this is not the second family for us, but the family. “
“This letter hurts, the Mother General, who was here on Friday, didn’t even have the courage to tell us by looking us in the face. But what hurts most is knowing that they want to close down and move our nuns. That for us they are mothers and sisters. Our heart will also go away with them. For us, from the end of June, passing through Corso Genova will be very hard. Here is our life, our world, our everything. “
The intervention of Sister Anna and the Mother Superior
Flora, widowed for a year now, admits that the support of the Sisters made it possible to accept his loss. Anita, on the other hand, mother of four children he can’t understand the fact that, after a working relationship of over 10 years, everything is collapsing in a few days.
The people directly involved also spoke out in this regard, Sister Anna clearly expressed her closeness to the two employees, confirming that at the basis of everything there is a well-established emotional relationship. Even the Mother Superior wanted to express her disappointment: “A sad thing that I didn’t expect because finding another place is not that easy and they have to support themselves“.
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